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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using mfs for /tmp Date: 28 Oct 1995 00:43:46 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 25 Message-ID: <46ruc2$me3@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <46qutm$fr@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <46qutm$fr@prds-grn.demon.co.uk>, Thomas D.G. Sandford <t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I am trying to use mfs for my /tmp directory but I can't get it to > work. From reading the man page, I assumed I wanted something like > mount -t mfs /dev/sd0b /tmp > (/dev/sd0b is my primary swap partition). However this reports > "operation not supported by device". Could someone show me the error > of my ways please? Have you rebuilt your kernel with mfs support? If not rebuild the kernel with "options MFS" And of course you should have /tmp in your /etc/fstab instead of mounting it after the system is running multiuser. Good luck, -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/