From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 19:31:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FADA37B68E for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:31:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA40891; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:32:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:32:46 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Dru , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 In-Reply-To: <20000516222008.G58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist J. Clark wrote to Dru: > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:15:36PM -0400, Dru wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Sounds like the drive was not detected at boot. How about, > > > # grep ^ad /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > > ad0: 6187MB [13410/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > > > > But now I'm confused. This is my one and only hard drive on a system > > dedicated to FreeBSD. > > 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. Apologies for the intrusion. Dru, were you not asking for a "RAM" drive? I believe your original post may have been a bit misleading, but in the lines of your text I DID see reference made to MFS - Memory FileSystem. No second physical disk is required. To add a MFS drive, add the following to your /etc/fstab /dev/wd0s1b /tmp mfs rw,-s=65536 0 0 Creates a 32MB MFS on /tmp man mount_mfs -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message