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Subject: Re: Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?
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At 06:16 PM 10/9/2005, David Marshall wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run
>through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time?  What's the best way
>to do this?
>
>Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best?

make an entry in fstab that looks something like:

md /mount/point mfs rw,-F/path/to/backing/store 0 0

-Glenn


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