Subject: Re: "/tmp" and "swap" by
default on the same partition if you use the
NetBSD installer to partition NetBSD slice? -
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Re: "/tmp" and "swap" by default on the same partition if you use the NetBSD installer to partition NetBSD slice?

On 5/22/07, Siju George <sgeorge.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I Installed NetBSD 3.1/amd64 on a SATA HDD. > The disk partitions were created using the installer options > Looking at the details I found that the fstab has a strange entry > > ============================================= > sambapdc# cat /etc/fstab > /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0g /home ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0h /Backup ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=4195296 > kernfs /kern kernfs rw > procfs /proc procfs rw,noauto > sambapdc# > ============================================== > > swap and /tmp are both on wd0b > > is this the right behavior? or a bug in the NetBSD installer? or did I > make some mistake? See the link below. It is for Solaris, but applies to NetBSD as well. http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/swap.html Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS, section Semantics Ken -- "-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is that? -Last-minute panic." - the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip

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Re: "/tmp" and "swap" by default on the same partition if you use the NetBSD installer to partition NetBSD slice?

On 5/22/07, Siju George <sgeorge.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I Installed NetBSD 3.1/amd64 on a SATA HDD. > The disk partitions were created using the installer options > Looking at the details I found that the fstab has a strange entry > > ============================================= > sambapdc# cat /etc/fstab > /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0g /home ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0h /Backup ffs rw 1 2 > /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=4195296 > kernfs /kern kernfs rw > procfs /proc procfs rw,noauto > sambapdc# > ============================================== > > swap and /tmp are both on wd0b > > is this the right behavior? or a bug in the NetBSD installer? or did I > make some mistake? See the link below. It is for Solaris, but applies to NetBSD as well. http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/swap.html Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS, section Semantics Ken -- "-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is that? -Last-minute panic." - the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip