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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:46:35 -0800
From:      "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.com>
To:        <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>, "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com>
Subject:   Re: /tmp and mfs(8)?
Message-ID:  <006701c06638$dbdefe40$0402010a@biohz.net>
References:  <p05001965b65ebd173c5c@[192.168.168.205]>

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The man page is right, it's just that the default install doesn't create it
automagically. Edit /etc/fstab and insert:

/dev/da0s1b      /tmp      mfs     rw,nosuid,nodev    0 0
^^^ your swap device                    ^^^^^^^ not necessary

Then reboot and you'll get an MFS mounted on /tmp.



----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: /tmp and mfs(8)?


> The hier(7) man page says
>
>    /tmp/    temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem ...
>
> On my vanilla FreeBSD 4.1 system, doing "df /tmp" yields:
>
>    Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>    /dev/da0s1a      49583    27725    17892    61%    /
>
> which seems to indicate that /tmp is still on /.  Also, I see no
> reference to mfs in my /etc/fstab file.
>
> So, I'm wondering if the man page is incorrect or what...
>
> -r
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