Odd "phantom MFS mountpoint" issue

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 12 00:28:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:07:51PM -0400, H. Wade Minter wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Michael Proto wrote:
> 
> >Does /tmp exist and is writable when the system is started? Looking at
> >the test in /etc/rc.d/tmp, it looks like /tmp will be mounted as a mfs
> >if "/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/.diskless" fails.
> 
> It should have been, but I went ahead and set tmpmfs="NO" in rc.conf, 
> rebooted, and things are fine now.
> 
> Thanks for the help!

Check if /tmp itself has strange permissions or file flags or
ownership....

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