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From: keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser)
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Subject: Re: mfs on /tmp
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> Hi,
>         My 2.2.2R system more or less crashed this morning due to it
> ran out of swap space. And that was because /tmp got filled up
> 
>         I ended up rebooting the machine and all seems well. I have
> 2 questions.
> 
>         1) After I deleted the offending file from /tmp, it was
> cleared but swap wasn't. If I would have been patient, would mfs
> return space to swap?
> 
>         2) I see that I can do a -s size in mount_mfs. How would I
> put that in fstab?

Well, I can answer part 2.  My fstab entry says:

/dev/wd0s1b             /tmp            mfs     rw,-s=32768  0   0

> Paul.
> 
> - --
> I don't suffer from insanity.  I enjoy every minute of it.

Kevin