thanks for your suggestion! >df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s3a 496M 119M 337M 26% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad4s3e 496M 18M 438M 4% /tmp /dev/ad4s3f 14G 4.8G 8.4G 37% /usr /dev/ad4s3d 1.4G 178M 1.1G 14% /var /dev/ad4s7 30G 3.6G 26G 12% /media/F /dev/ad4s8 30G 4.1G 24G 15% /media/G
The /dev/ad4s3e is just 496M. so it is not worth for me to modify the disk-level layout. Matthew Seaman-2 wrote: > > On 05/09/2010 07:09:50, zaxis wrote: >> The /dev/ad4s3e is used for /tmp. Now i want to use tmpfs instead of ufs >> as >> below >> none /tmp tmpfs size=64M,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 >> >> If i can, then how to reuse the space of /dev/ad4s3e ? > > There are two choices. > > Either mount your ad4s3e partition somewhere else as a regular > filesystem -- you can move the mount point simply by unmounting it, > editing fstab and then mounting the new partition. Do that before > mounting your new tmpfs based /tmp, or you'll block access to the whole > filesystem on ad4s3e. Oh, and 'chmod 755 /new/mountpoint' after you > move it -- you don't want the /tmp defaults of mode 1777 on a normal > filesystem. > > Or amalgamate the ad4s3e partition with one of the partitions > neighbouring it on the drive. Use bsdlabel(8) to examine and modify the > disk-level layout. If you join ad4s3e on to the end of the preceeding > partition, you can use growfs(8) to expand that partition into the extra > space. Otherwise you'll have to newfs(8) the expanded partition and > recover the contents from backup. Either way, this sort of partition > wrangling operation involves low-level fiddling in the guts of the OS > and an enhanced potential for things to go horribly wrong, so make sure > you've got good backups and spend some time planning exactly what you > are going to do, even down to the extent of writing out all the commands > you'll need beforehand. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > PS. 64MB is pretty small for a /tmp -- you might want to increase the > size of your tmpfs. > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > > > ----- e^(π⋅i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Can-i-use-tmpfs-to-mount--tmp---tp29625711p29627883.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
