From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 0:15: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDCC37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C5C43E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:15:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6B73ww78820 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:03:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using Memory Disks to Build World Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to do a make world with /usr/obj and /usr/src on memory disks (this system has 2GB RAM, so I figure 512MB for each ought to be enough). This is a 4.6-stable system. I created some md devices in /dev, but can't make mount_mfs work with something like mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0 /usr/src or mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0s1 /usr/src Maybe I'm missing a step? These devices have not been disklabeled. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message