tmpfs in /etc/fstab ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Excellent, thanks, this is precisely the type of answer I needed :-).


On 09/13/14 07:59, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 13/09/2014 09:21, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> As of 10.0-REL you can use the usual multiplier suffix letters in the 
> size (and other size related fields), which is easier than writing the 
> size in bytes. This is my fstab entry
>
> tmpfs        /tmp        tmpfs    rw,mode=01777,size=512M 0 0
>
> A quick look at the svn repository suggests you do this with 9.3-REL 
> as well. I've no idea whether earlier releases let you do it.
>

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