fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

[Daniel Bye]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:00:06PM +0000, Christopher Key wrote:
> The problem is, I'm sure, is essentially identical to that described in,
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg21675.html
> 
> namely that the entry for the memory filesystem, /tmp, in /etc/fstab is 
> confusing fsck.  My /etc/fstab looks like,
> 
> # cat /etc/fstab
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    
> Pass#
> /dev/ad8s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad8s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> md                      /tmp            mfs     rw,-s64m                
> 2      2
> /dev/ad8s1f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad8s1e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad8s1d             /var/tmp        ufs     rw              3       3
> /dev/mirror/gm0s1d      /svn            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/mirror/gm0s2d      /data           ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/mirror/gm0s3d      /music          ufs     rw              2       2
> 
> I can get the system to boot quite happily by carrying on into single 
> user mode and exiting, but I still get the same behaviour next reboot.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

mount_mfs(8), in the EXAMPLES section, says this:

     Create and mount a 32 megabyte swap-backed file system on /tmp:

           mdmfs -s 32m md /tmp

     The same file system created as an entry in /etc/fstab:

           md /tmp mfs rw,-s32m 2 0

Try setting the passno field (the last one) to 0, and see how that works.

Dan

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