From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 19:45:32 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 284B737BB74 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ip105.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.105]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 12rtq6-00063T-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:45:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:47:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@genisis To: Ryan Thompson Cc: cjclark@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 In-Reply-To: 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, Ryan Thompson wrote: > 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 This is what I originally did (except I used /dev/ad1s1b as that is what my /etc/fstab entry for swap is) I tried the above, and got 2 error messages during dmesg (and an unmountable system) swapon: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured mfs: /dev/wd0s1b: No such file or directory man mount_mfs was one of the pages I read; couldn't decipher that one which was I originally asked for a tutorial somewheres. This is a fresh install of 4.0, not upgraded from 3.x. When I was in 3.x my devices were wd_ as I remember noting they now seem to be called ad_ Any other ideas? Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message