From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 8:42:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fem.uniag.sk (fem.uniag.sk [193.87.97.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F259137B405 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lk01@localhost) by fem.uniag.sk (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0JGfiK27634; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:41:45 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:41:44 +0100 (MET) From: Ladislav Kostal To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mfs filesystems In-Reply-To: <200201191618.LAA04165@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message