From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 06:43:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA04280 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 06:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA04273 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 06:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20005; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:43:25 GMT Message-Id: <199609161343.NAA20005@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA181801424; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:43:44 -0600 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:43:44 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <242237437BB@NLNMG01.nym.sc.philips.com> (Kees.Koster@nym.sc.philips.com) Subject: Re: Can I combine /tmp and swap? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is possible to combine /tmp and swap. Install FreeBSD as usual, making a swap `b' partition on your disk. After installation, edit the /etc/fstab file and add an extra entry for the `b' partition that mounts on /tmp and uses the mfs filesystem type. For example, here's an excerpt from my /etc/fstab which does this: /dev/sd0s4b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s4b /tmp mfs rw 0 0 You'll also need to configure your kernel with the line options MFS for this to work, since the MFS filesystem type can't yet be dynamically loaded. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/