From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 00:17:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:17:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pooh.ficnet.net (pooh.ficnet.net [202.145.137.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09348 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donny@ms1.all.com.tw) Received: from ms1.all.com.tw (as6po7.ht.ficnet.net.tw [202.145.175.135]) by pooh.ficnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05046; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:17:02 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <36776E46.D36D7F26@ms1.all.com.tw> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:24:38 +0800 From: Donny Lee X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Saunders CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does it mean MFS ? References: <001801be28ca$43a69cd0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Saunders wrote: > > I've enabled the MFS options in my 3.0 kernel, but find no > Add this to /etc/fstab (/dev/wd0s1b has to be the swap partition). > If you want to change how big it is (the default size is as > big as all of your swap space). > /dev/wd0s1b /tmp mfs rw,-s=16384 0 0 > The -s option gives the size in 512 byte sectors, so my example > creates a 4MB memory filesystem. Thanks. BTW, I've heard that, bsd's swap partition must be at least as big as the memory installed on a machine, or even larger, I'm wondering if it's correct? as I have 256mb ram installed, then I have to make a >256mb hard disk space for swap? -- // Donny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message