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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.1 Memory File System Date: 6 Aug 1996 15:31:38 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4u7ogq$g7h@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4ts8g2$n92@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com> <4u36as$gbs@colwyn.owl.de> <6EHUjvqZo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) wrote: > > mount -t mfs /dev/sd<n>b /mount-point > > > > Where <n> is the number of the disk on which your swap partition > > resides. ... > > Why this physical disk? > Until now I believed the memory file system being kind of ram-disk. Nope, it's a virtual memory disk, i.e. its contents is backed by paging space. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j