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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
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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,


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