From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 20: 8:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tranq1.tranquility.net (tranq1.tranquility.net [206.156.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F3437BB8A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) Received: from Babylon.X (ppp-port1-5.tranquility.net [206.152.118.5]) by tranq1.tranquility.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA19683; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:08:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ishmael@localhost) by Babylon.X (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA70051; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:12:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) X-Authentication-Warning: Babylon.X: ishmael owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:12:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy X-Sender: ishmael@localhost To: Dru Cc: 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, 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