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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!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: How to setup a RAM DISK? Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:14:57 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4kuoq1$r5h@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <4kpi63$oot@ustsu10.ust.hk> <4kre0r$7el@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <4kre0r$7el@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >eg_lcx@uxmail.ust.hk (Water Dargon) writes: > Basically: > options MFS > in your config file (it's there by default), and then Actually, it isn't. It is in the BOOTMFS and LINT kernels but not in GENERIC > mount_mfs -s 20000 /dev/sd0b /tmp > with: 20000 blocks (~ 10 MB), backed to the swap area /dev/sd0b, > mounted to /tmp. You are better off not specifying the size. That way it can grow as needed. So long as you do not need a lot of /tmp space and a lot of swap space at the same time there shouldn't be a problem. 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/ -- 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/