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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Using mfs for /tmp Date: 29 Oct 1995 17:33:33 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <470act$qk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46qutm$fr@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? You need ``options MFS'' in your kernel config. (Sorry, this one is not available as loadable module.) You should also specify the size of the filesystem, i think this must be done by ``-o -s <size>''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)