Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Marco S Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-23 09:57]: > > My main question is the device it uses. The man page has the > > device /dev/sd0b. This needs to be set up somewhere. Still, I see > > that people use "swap" in its place instead. > > Swap is the b partition in a generic kernel (a

Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-23 Thread Greg Thomas
On 1/22/07, Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Mardi 23 Janvier 2007 00:04, Greg Thomas a icrit : > On 1/22/07, Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to set up a > > memory file system from beginning to end. I keep reading about

Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-23 Thread Marco S Hyman
> My main question is the device it uses. The man page has the > device /dev/sd0b. This needs to be set up somewhere. Still, I see > that people use "swap" in its place instead. Swap is the b partition in a generic kernel (and most other kernels, too). Use of "swap" in fstab just simplif

Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Matulis
Le Mardi 23 Janvier 2007 00:04, Greg Thomas a icrit : > On 1/22/07, Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to set up a > > memory file system from beginning to end. I keep reading about > > /tmp and swap and docs that presume certain steps

Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-22 Thread Marco S Hyman
Peter Matulis writes: > I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to set up a memory > file system from beginning to end. I keep reading about /tmp and swap > and docs that presume certain steps have been accomplished (disklabel). I suspect your difficulty is in expecting it to be

Re: setting up a memory file system

2007-01-22 Thread Greg Thomas
On 1/22/07, Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to set up a memory file system from beginning to end. I keep reading about /tmp and swap and docs that presume certain steps have been accomplished (disklabel). I want to set up /var/blah as

setting up a memory file system

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Matulis
I am having difficulty finding documentation on how to set up a memory file system from beginning to end. I keep reading about /tmp and swap and docs that presume certain steps have been accomplished (disklabel). I want to set up /var/blah as mfs. What are the basic steps? Peter