Subject: Re: Relation of /tmp and swap?
To: None <rainer@pal-ts1-077.slip.uci.edu>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/21/1997 23:42:02
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:55:10 -0800 (PST)
>From: Rainer Doemer <rainer@pal-ts1-077.slip.uci.edu>

>In my system /tmp (and /var/tmp) both use space on the root partition,
>where not much space is left. My swap partition is almost empty
>all the time (I have 16Mb RAM), so it would be perfekt if /tmp
>uses that space.
>Do I have to mount /tmp onto the swap partition? (If yes, how?)

See mount_mfs(8) and mdconfig(8) (which is rdconfig(8) if you're not
running a recent version of -current).  Note that neither will work
without the appropriate kernel support; 'options MFS' and
'pseudo-device md N', respectively.
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