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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: MFS /tmp oddness
In-Reply-To: <19971119190117.04396@pobox.com> from Brian Campbell at "Nov 19, 97 07:01:17 pm"
To: brianc@pobox.com (Brian Campbell)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:57:36 -0500 (EST)
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Brian Campbell said:
> 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
> 
I changed my login.conf a long time ago.  I didn't even think of it.

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