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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:41:44 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ladislav Kostal <ladislav.kostal@fem.uniag.sk>
To:        Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mfs filesystems
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.40.0201191740180.27477-100000@fem.uniag.sk>
In-Reply-To: <200201191618.LAA04165@uce55.uchaswv.edu>

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Nathan Mace wrote:

> ok, that helped a little, but is there a way to mount a mfs partition on a
> system with no hard drive?  i'm making a freebsd OS that boots from a cdrom,
> and needs to mount /var and /tmp as mfs so that they can be writeable.  any
> ideas how to do this without a hard drive, which would also mean doing it
> without a swap partition

Look at /etc/rd.diskless[1,2]. There is some example of creating /var and
/tmp using mfs. I have used it in diskless booting.

Ladislav Kostal


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