From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 16:03:37 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 EB1001065670 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:03:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6DC8FC0A for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 16:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-157-147.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.157.147]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7B01E5F7; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:03:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o85G3XVn001705; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:03:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:03:33 +0200 From: Polytropon To: zaxis Message-Id: <20100905180333.fc7336c3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <29625711.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <29625711.post@talk.nabble.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can i use tmpfs to mount /tmp ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:03:37 -0000 Allow me a short comment regarding your /etc/fstab, not related to your intial question. You have the following entries: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:09:50 -0700 (PDT), zaxis wrote: > /dev/ad4s7 /media/F msdosfs rw 0 0 > /dev/ad4s8 /media/G ext2fs rw 0 0 It looks like you are using the directories F and G in /media to mount other slices of your hard disk ("primary partitions") corresponding to specific "drive letters". According to "man hier", the /media subtree is not intended for that purpose. Let me quote: /media/ contains subdirectories to be used as mount points for remov- able media such as CDs, USB drives, and floppy disks This directory is often used by automounting solutions such as they appear in KDE, Gnome or Xfce. Now, where else would one instead mount them? In /mnt maybe? /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a temporary mount point No, doesn't seem to look right. As I didn't have any need to mount FAT/NTFS partitions in my whole life, I couldn't even suggest some directory where to mount it that does not interfere with the well-designed and intended concepts of the FreeBSD file system hierarchy. I had other kinds of partitions and disks (UFS usually) mounted under /export, but just because they were then exported via NFS right away, so the use of /export/F and /export/G would look strange, too (but possible, as FreeBSD does not have /export per se - it's a Solarism, if I remember correctly). The same way, you could create any arbitrary name (/winparts, /dos, /ntmounts or anything else) to not interfere with the expected use of /media. Maybe some "file system guru" cares to join my little sideshow and explain how it is done correctly? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...