unable to mount swap backed device

Cory Bajus cbajus at mts.net
Thu Apr 15 11:08:07 PDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Mipam wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Cory Bajus wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > On 5+, you need an entry like this in /etc/fstab:
> >
> > md	/var/amavis	mfs	rw,-s64m	0	0
> >
> > This will configure a swap backed 'md' disk and put a UFS
> 
> Thanks, it works fine.
> Only the permissions ans ownership after this are like this:
> 
> drwxrwxrwt   3 root    wheel
> 
> every time after reboot the permissions are the same again.
> Anyway, to get around this?

Sure - have a look at the -p and -w options in the mdmfs man
page.

> Bye,
> 
> Mipam.


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