From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 00:42:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332801065670 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD9A8FC08 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:42:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.45 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht03.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.45] (HELO HT03.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 31370943; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:42:32 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by HT03.exg5.exghost.com ([10.242.228.75]) with mapi; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:42:34 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: Tim Judd Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:42:33 -0500 Thread-Topic: How customized can an mfsroot be? Thread-Index: AcrVIF+ucDdN3IoRSkKLdQm87c5x1wAARgBw Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:42:36 -0000 > But ... why are you constricting yourself to use mfs_root? I have many t= imes ran FreeBSD completely from CDrom, which >will give you all 700 (or a DVD, 4.3G) usable space. > >I'd be happy to help, if you have questions. but please direct the questi= ons to the mailing list. The reason I was doing it this way was because I didn't know how to provide= the CD-ROM environment a writeable file system for /tmp and /var. Obviousl= y these have to be setup as some kind of ram based file system. What's the = trick?