From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 4:22:32 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 2361537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED6743E5E for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 04:22:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Received: from rambo.simx.org (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BBMK4N068732; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:22:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3D2D6A6D.4050500@rambo.simx.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:22:21 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using Memory Disks to Build World References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Annelise Anderson wrote: > 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 > I usually just use my swap as special device, like so: mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/da0s1b /usr/obj AFAIK, you dont need to create any md devices in /dev to use mount_mfs, but then again Im no expert on mfs. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message