From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 05:45:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA05655 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 05:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA05623 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 05:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de (dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.124]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA18444 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:44:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from graichen@localhost) by dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) id OAA01712 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:44:20 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199601051344.OAA01712@dirac.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: mount_mfs & /tmp & diskless To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:44:19 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk is it possible to use mount_mfs _without_ the "special" argument ? what i want is to mount_mfs my /tmp for a diskless FreeBSD xterminal for the /tmp.X* files - but to use mount_mfs it seems i need a disk special device (from the mount_mfs man-page): The special file is only used to read the disk label which provides a set of configuration parameters for the memory based file system. but i don't have any disk (diskless :-) thus the typical swap-partition entry won't help - is there any trick to get a ~16 block (8k) /tmp mounted mount_mfs using a diskless FreeBSD machine with / mounted ro with the diskless code ? thanks in adavance - t p.s.: this may lead to very simple FreeBSD xterminals _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________