tmpfs in /etc/fstab ....

Rolf Nielsen rmg1970swe at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 08:21:19 UTC 2014


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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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