tmpfs in /etc/fstab ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Sep 13 11:32:42 UTC 2014



*perfect*, thanks :-) !!!!


On 09/13/14 03:21, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
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> On 2014-09-13 06:06, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... I would like to enable use of tmpfs on my FBSD 9.3 box for
>> performance. The box has 16 GB of both RAM & swap. I added
>> 'tmpfs_load="YES"' to my /boot/loader.conf, but I can't figure out
>> what to put in /etc/fstab to allow the process to happen
>> automatically upon reboot. Specifically, what is the device I
>> should be using. The man page gives the mount command, which looks
>> like the device is called 'tmpfs'. Is that correct ? Are there any
>> issues w/ this procedure ? TIA ....
>>
>>
>
> tmpfs	/tmp	tmpfs	rw,uid=0,gid=0,mode=1777,size=1073741824	0	0
>
> should do it. Adjust the size parameter to your needs. It should be
> specified in bytes.
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
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	William A. Mahaffey III

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