On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
> Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > I would like to do a make world with /usr/obj and /usr/src
> > on memory disks (this system has 2GB RAM, so I figure 512MB
> > for each ought to be enough). This is a 4.6-stable system.
> >
> > I created some md devices in /dev, but can't make
> > mount_mfs work with something like
> > mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0 /usr/src
> > or mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/md0s1 /usr/src
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing a step? These devices have not been
> > disklabeled.
> >
> > Annelise
> >
>
> I usually just use my swap as special device, like so:
> mount_mfs -s 1048576 /dev/da0s1b /usr/obj
>
> AFAIK, you dont need to create any md devices in /dev to use
> mount_mfs, but then again Im no expert on mfs.
>
Yes, but I don't want to use a swap partition--I wanted a memory
disk in RAM, although perhaps this creates a RAM disk with swap
as overflow; I'm not sure.
Annelise
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