Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:06:49 +0200 From: Jean-Sebastien ROY <js@jeannot.org> To: marki@paradise.net.nz Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFS Sizing Problems Message-ID: <js-B266E9.13064815082001@nnrp3-2.proxad.net> References: <20010814135213.A64512_gemini.thehutt.org@ns.sol.net> <3B7A214B.FD6F34F6_paradise.net.nz@ns.sol.net>
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In article <3B7A214B.FD6F34F6_paradise.net.nz@ns.sol.net>, marki@paradise.net.nz wrote: > "Jerry A!" wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get an mfs /tmp set up on a box running 4.4-PRERELEASE > > (20010810). > > > > There are two issues I'm running into. > > > > 1. No matter what size I give via the "-s" option, the partition is > > never larger than 500M. This machine has a 1g of physical mem and 2g of > > swap. It has breathing room for the 800M I would prefer to make /tmp. > > Do you by any chance have more than one swap partition? MFS will only > use the *specified* swap device as a backing store. I have the exact same problem (on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE) and my two swap partitions are more than 500 Mb : js@durandal:~ [ 506 ] $ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/rad4s1b 1048448 104 1048344 0% Interleaved /dev/ad5s1b 1048448 80 1048368 0% Interleaved Total 2096896 184 2096712 0% (btw I do not understand why it is rad4s1b and not ad4s1b) js@durandal:~ [ 509 ] $ grep mfs /etc/fstab /dev/ad4s1b /tmp mfs rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 js@durandal:~ [ 511 ] $ df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on mfs:28 507631 65164 401857 14% /tmp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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