From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 02:10:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06028 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:10:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA06023 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA00708; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:20:29 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702170920.KAA00708@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: mfs & swap relationship To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:20:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "J Wunsch" at Feb 15, 97 01:03:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hmm, although this seems to be a crock as well as my version, perhaps > we should stuff a generic `mfs' entry into /etc/disktab, and document > its use in the EXAMPLES section. Can you send your version to me? In /etc/fstab for the diskless machine I have wind:/usr/diskless_root / nfs ro,-r=1024 0 0 /dev/null /var mfs rw,-T=myformat 0 0 wind:/usr /usr nfs ro,-r=1024 1 1 in /etc/disktab the entry is myformat:\ dt=ST506:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#256:nc#1:\ :pb#12288:ob#0:tb=swap:\ :pc#12288:oc#0: (since I only have swap on that...). > (It will only make sense if you can override the actual size from the > commandline.) I suppose the "-s" flag to mount_mfs should work, although I did not try (and I cannot right now since I am fighting with the 21140-AC) Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________