From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 05:42:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14043 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 05:42:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA14038 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 05:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15535; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:42:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611111342.HAA15535@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: MFS To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:42:34 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4148.199611091703@parsley.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from Mr M P Searle at "Nov 9, 96 05:03:33 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Mr M P Searle said: > What's the best way to make a temporary MFS, mounted > on /tmp, when I boot? I've looked at the man pages for > fstab and mount_mfs, but they weren't very helpful. > I don't need it to be kept after reboots, > so it doesn't need to be kept in the file system. I'm > using 2.1-R. /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw 0 0 Kernel config file: options MFS #Memory Mapped FS -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030