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Date: 05 Aug 1996 23:19:00 +0100
From: chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
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	<4u36as$gbs@colwyn.owl.de>
Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.1 Memory File System
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Hello

In article <4u36as$gbs@colwyn.owl.de>, tron (tron@colwyn.owl.de) wrote:

> > Can any body tell me how to create a Memory File System (MFS) on
> > NetBSD-1.1 ??
>
> 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.

-cr
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Christoph Rimek, Kiel, Germany  (+49 431 57601)      chrimek@toppoint.de