Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:12:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy <ishmael@tranquility.net> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162208080.27934-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162253340.981-100000@genisis>
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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Dru wrote: /dev/ad1 is the second IDE disk on a system. You've stated you only have one IDE drive, thus you cant use a non-existant drive for swap. I believe you're confused by the example in the man page. You're supposed to set it up using whatever device is configured as your swap partition. Most likely its /dev/ad0s1b. Jeremy > Which is why I'm confused; according to my /etc/fstab it still is. > > Waded through man mount_mfs and tried the example at the bottom: > > mount_mfs -s 131072 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/ad1s1b /tmp > > Wanna guess the error message (drum roll please......) > > mount_mfs: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured > > Anyone have any idea what the correct device name for my swap should be > and how do I configure it? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Here's > my /etc/fstab again: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > > Dru > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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