Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:09:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kees Jan Koster <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> Subject: MFS config and disk usage Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970211110909.1116I-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>
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Hello FreeBSD-questions,
I though I understood how MFS uses diskspace, but I was wrong. Please help
me out.
I have two swap partitions, one on /dev/sd0s2b and one on /dev/sd1s2b,
each about 50Mb. Since I wanted to use MFS (very large performance
increase!), I mounted the /dev/sd1s2b partition as an MFS disk on /tmp,
leaving /dev/sd0s2b as a normal swap partition. This works fine and fast.
Trouble starts when I put substantial amounts of stuff in /tmp. As far as
I can make out, mount_mfs process grows to 50Mb as /tmp fills up, eating
my swap space.
My question (finally) is: Why do I give mount_mfs the 50Mb /dev/sd1s2b
partition, if that disk space is not used to swap the information into?
How can I best combine the two swap partitions and an MFS disk? Is there a
way that I can explain to mount_mfs that it can use all available swap
space, and have both /dev/sd0s2b and /dev/sd1s2b as swap partitions?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
PS. Please CC me, I'm not on the list.
PPS. I just can't get FreeBSD to crash, no matter how I try ;)
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Kees Jan Koster 46 Kemsing Gardens
e-mail: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk Canterbury, Kent
phone: UK-1227-452151 CT2 7RF, United Kingdom
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Holland... isn't that near Amsterdam?
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