From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 8:51:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31F537B402 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.188.158]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0JGrQx28747 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:53:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g0JGpZG33535; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:51:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfs filesystems References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Jan 2002 11:51:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: nmace85@yahoo.com's message of "20 Jan 2002 00:15:54 +0800" Message-ID: <44zo3acmi0.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 nmace85@yahoo.com (Nathan Mace) writes: > 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 Sure. See the -T option, and the associated comments in the man page. Or look at how the install floppies do it -- they are usually used with swap, but it isn't necessary... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message