From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 19:47:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D5337BB85 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA59491; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:47:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:47:48 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Dru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 Message-ID: <20000516224748.H58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000516222008.G58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from genisis@istar.ca on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:31:36PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:31:36PM -0400, Dru wrote: > > > 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. Oh. OK. You had me totally confused... And I'm not completely there yet. Why were you trying to use this non-existent drive ad1 then? It's obviously not your swap device. > 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. Yeah, swapon(8) makes it available as swap space. Someone else caught on much faster than I and pointed to mount_mfs(8). Hope you get it figured out. > That's when I started running into > error messages and sent the first email. I think I'll go watch The Simpsons. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message