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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:01:17 -0500
From:      Brian Campbell <brianc@pobox.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MFS /tmp oddness
Message-ID:  <19971119190117.04396@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711192342.SAA06732@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 06:42:07PM -0500
References:  <m0xYGlp-0000CuC@megami.veritas.com> <199711192342.SAA06732@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 06:42:07PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Aaron Smith said:
> > i'm having this problem where a boot-time-mounted MFS ends up being sized
> > to 32M. if i unmount and remount it, it's 128M. thinking that DFLDSIZ was
> > the problem, i upped MAX and DFLDSIZ to 256M, but no dice. 
> > 
> > does anybody know why i'm getting such a tiny MFS? we tried using the -s
> > option too but that didn't work either.
> > 
> > sorry if this is a FAQ, i searched the mailing list archives to no avail.
> > 
> This is in my fstab and works.  (note that the -b=16384,-f=2048 options
> are eccentric, but this is copied directly.)
> 
> swap		/tmp	mfs	rw,-s=210000,-b=16384,-f=2048 0 0

Did you have to modify login.conf (or something else) to make this work?
Mine specfies -s262000 but only manages to get 32M



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