Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:46:34 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> To: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mfs filesystems Message-ID: <20020119143704.W218-100000@BLAST> In-Reply-To: <200201190537.AAA25756@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Nathan Mace wrote: > every example i can find conserning mfs filesystems, mounts the mfs > "partition" from the swap partition. is there a way to mount it from a > section of RAM instead of a section of swap? > > please send me a copy of any replies, i am not a member of this mailing list. > thanks > > nathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > the mfs is used to see a section of ram as a filesystem. the advice i got from more experience people is that 'if u got a lot of ram, put the /tmp as mfs'. which is what i did... i'm sending you the output of the /etc/fstab of my sys: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1g /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a /tmp mfs rw 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 see, /tmp is mount as mfs. also note that the mountpoint is effectively '/' (root). both the '/' ( second line) and the '/tmp' mount on the ad0s1a. the output of df command is: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 63503 51220 7203 88% / /dev/ad0s1g 13174185 1836360 10283891 15% /home /dev/ad0s1e 2977230 1881320 798187 70% /usr /dev/ad0s1f 347295 16125 303387 5% /var mfs:22 63471 3 58391 0% /tmp procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc showing 64M ram mounted on /tmp as mfs... hope this helps... Regards --Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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