Date: 19 Jan 2002 11:51:35 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfs filesystems Message-ID: <44zo3acmi0.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: nmace85@yahoo.com's message of "20 Jan 2002 00:15:54 %2B0800" References: <a2c63q$278o$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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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
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