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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
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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
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