From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 19:29:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD3837BB4F for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:29:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ip161.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.161]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 12rtaS-0000pF-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:29:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:31:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@genisis To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 In-Reply-To: <20000516222008.G58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > You're confused? I you were just saying you were trying to add swap > from a second drive, now you say that there is only one drive? > How many drives do you have on the system? It looks like one is > detected. OK, let's try again. I have one hard drive. I want to add a RAM drive like I always have in earlier releases of FreeBSD, to take advantage of MFS. This usually entailed adding a line to /etc/fstab to mount the same device used by swap as /tmp using mfs. When this failed, I started searching the FreeBSD site and my usual haunts for tips. I then tried man swapon and the best I could make out was that this was something new introduced in 4.0 and swapon -a should make my swap device listed in /etc/fstab available. That's when I started running into error messages and sent the first email. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message