From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 10:31:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF34C106564A for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 10:31:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E3958FC0C for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 10:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 42075 invoked by uid 60001); 23 May 2010 10:31:08 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1274610668; bh=Wj+Vkdfo9Xxw1Jp9mQX1kfdGoOc8I+wW1dDkZGD7JEg=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=jBIO2V3/yZs3FQl1pSoL7nJOqmzYH7IRvKz1jOSs6SVhFg+U8jKQj4iRj6A9tzit0H/0vHG9tCzDIAkVrVESZIQUjCtUl3+Sec9rlqYk15j9h6L5VODjR5HF0Ol5geFF5zVz1foej4xkDJwlnOmPOcwFr3I5SNpmEvOx56gKZXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=XZpbsBqsJ12397PrQwIE8rjPQ/jzD5N5yZaUPXR/slCYYUPWvZ6E8T99Ezy92DD22pk2Ad/ut1u5hX6Noj4XpCkAGQzx9zGYr+554VI4aHe0kqnK8ZrgpQdTLviPGKOekccdmz3FYinRAq0+fDUYGxDERtCbHZmmeSvihsECjz0=; Message-ID: <861376.41000.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: WDWWRPoVM1nrW7YmUJO2ROKPgLi1pf2p9Y2H1YSbjaXPGye pIcHyRb6kAlzYT7RnzVWCg.XMXfO9Wr3psHmOUG7cJvxhJe0I.t.WPxu79i. Ug_kK7ujMDr5qg8jPbZpCXzbF7ye1sMFLCPNbndNCbfqlCMnKZoNSd58NE1w flzTpNe7TYrBOUl8T_Q3RI.c8WElPJTnn7YfRg8ZLFZ927HELYoB3ous5Lg8 WrGPNRAc9ouo_MjGYZglcY.mGDCWxF2G.CFLCa0xooobT7Wxwud9QLIYEQOD tGO8IwQT3 Received: from [98.242.237.166] by web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 23 May 2010 03:31:08 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 03:31:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Diskless Booting Can't Set /var in mfs larger than 4MB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 10:31:09 -0000 I have a diskless workstation booting nicely but for some reason I cannot g= et the /var directory to set larger than 4MB. The docs I read said edit /px= eroot/conf/base/etc/fstab like this: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options =A0 =A0 =A0= Dump Pass# md =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 /var =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mfs =A0 =A0 = =A0-s=3D30m,rw =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 md =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 /tmp =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= mfs =A0 =A0 =A0-s=3D30m,rw =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 proc =A0 =A0 =A0/proc =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 proc= fs =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 rw =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 0 When I do this the /tmp directory sets up in mds at 30MB in size. But /var = always comes up at only 4MB in size. Can anyone tell me how to adjust the s= ize of /var in a diskless setup? =0A=0A=0A