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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:11:19 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mdmfs /tmp and fstab on 5.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302221309490.11537-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20030222024546.GD16534@moghedien.mukappabeta.net>

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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I usually mount /tmp on the swap via the following fstab entry:
>
> /dev/da0s1b /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,nodev,nosymfollow 0 0
>
> only this doesn't work anymore on freebsd 5.0 since mount_mfs doesn't
> exist (seems to have been replaced by mdmfs).
> What's the proper way to accomplish the same thing on 5.0?
> I'd prefer a solution with fstab, so that /tmp gets mounted as early
> as possible.

ln -s mdmfs /sbin/mount_mfs

As I recall, mdmfs wasn't called "mount_mfs" at the time because the
author wasn't prepared to fight the battle he assumed (probably
correctly) would arise out of doing so.

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