Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:44:35 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Thierry Besancon <Thierry.Besancon@lps.ens.fr> Cc: besancon@lps.ens.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting MFS without a swap partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981122124212.8311A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199811221739.RAA10904@excalibur.lps.ens.fr>
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On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Thierry Besancon wrote: > About 2 months ago, you asked in questions@FreeBSD.ORG how to mount a MFS > partition without any swap. > I'm in the same configuration. > > Did you get any answer ? The thread in empty how your question... > > Thanks for any piece of information. Thierry, Unfortunately I never did receive a response about that. I'm CC'ing this message to -hackers in the hopes of a suggestion. Essentially, the problem is as follows -- mount_mfs appears to require a device that it can associate itself with; this is normally the name of the swap device used. However, if you use vnconfig and a swap file, you do not have a swap file exactly; or at least, you do, but apparently mount_mfs does not like vn0b. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to go about doing this when using only swap files on a machine? Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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