Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:24:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Mounting MFS without a swap partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002122219.18892A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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A little while ago, the drive containing the swap partition of one of my servers failed. I have not yet had a chance to replace it with a new drive, so set up a swap file on another drive using vnconfig, etc. On my servers, I have been using MFS to improve performance -- I would like to continue using MFS for a variety of reasons, not least the self-cleaning-at-boot aspect. However, MFS appears to require that you pass a device for it to back to as an argument -- I was under the impression that it just used swap space, and the argument was really for show? :) Here is a command line -- I'd love advice on either fixing my command line, or fixing mfs to not require a partition: # mount -t mfs -o rw,-s=131072 mfs /tmp mfs: /dev/mfs: No such file or directory Attempting to provide the vn device fails due to: # mount -t mfs -o rw,-s=131072 /dev/vn0b /tmp mfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device mfs: /dev/vn0b: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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