From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 5:15:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A6737B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C9643FDF for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:15:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:13:43 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18mZR1-0003SK-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:11:19 +0000 Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:11:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Matthias Buelow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mdmfs /tmp and fstab on 5.0 In-Reply-To: <20030222024546.GD16534@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Hi folks, > > I usually mount /tmp on the swap via the following fstab entry: > > /dev/da0s1b /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,nodev,nosymfollow 0 0 > > only this doesn't work anymore on freebsd 5.0 since mount_mfs doesn't > exist (seems to have been replaced by mdmfs). > What's the proper way to accomplish the same thing on 5.0? > I'd prefer a solution with fstab, so that /tmp gets mounted as early > as possible. ln -s mdmfs /sbin/mount_mfs As I recall, mdmfs wasn't called "mount_mfs" at the time because the author wasn't prepared to fight the battle he assumed (probably correctly) would arise out of doing so. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Scrabble gematria: "BIBLE" = "DOGMA" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message