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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:22:21 +0200
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using Memory Disks to Build World
Message-ID:  <3D2D6A6D.4050500@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207102359480.78782-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> I would like to do a make world with /usr/obj and /usr/src
> on memory disks (this system has 2GB RAM, so I figure 512MB
> for each ought to be enough).  This is a 4.6-stable system.
> 
> I created some md devices in /dev, but can't make
> mount_mfs work with something like
> mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0 /usr/src
> or mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0s1 /usr/src
> 
> Maybe I'm missing a step?  These devices have not been
> disklabeled.
> 
> 	Annelise
> 

I usually just use my swap as special device, like so:
mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/da0s1b /usr/obj

AFAIK, you dont need to create any md devices in /dev to use 
mount_mfs, but then again Im no expert on mfs.

--
R


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