svn commit: r187264 - stable/7/sbin/mdconfig
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 14 18:57:08 PST 2009
Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Thu Jan 15 02:57:07 2009
New Revision: 187264
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187264
Log:
MFC 173539 from /head
* Expand the example descriptions, fix mdoc-bugs in "(-a and -t
vnode are implied)" and reuse it near the cd9660 example.
* Spell 'backing store' as two words.
Modified:
stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/ (props changed)
stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8
Modified: stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8 Thu Jan 15 02:54:40 2009 (r187263)
+++ stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8 Thu Jan 15 02:57:07 2009 (r187264)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 9, 2007
+.Dd November 11, 2007
.Dt MDCONFIG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ panic a system.
.It Cm vnode
A file specified with
.Fl f Ar file
-becomes the backingstore for this memory disk.
+becomes the backing store for this memory disk.
.It Cm swap
Storage for this type of memory disk is allocated from buffer
memory.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ To create a disk named
.Pa /dev/md4
with
.Pa /tmp/boot.flp
-as backing:
+as backing storage:
.Pp
.Dl mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/boot.flp -u 4
.Pp
@@ -206,7 +206,9 @@ To detach and free all resources used by
.Pp
.Dl mdconfig -d -u 4
.Pp
-To create and mount a 128MByte swap backed file system on
+To create a 128MByte swap backed disk, initialize an
+.Xr ffs 7
+file system on it, and mount it on
.Pa /tmp :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
mdconfig -a -t swap -s 128M -u 10
@@ -215,10 +217,10 @@ mount /dev/md10 /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp
.Ed
.Pp
-To create a 5MB file-backed disk (
-.Fl -a
+To create a 5MB file-backed disk
+.Ns ( Fl a
and
-.Fl -t Ar vnode
+.Fl t Ar vnode
are implied):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
dd if=/dev/zero of=somebackingfile bs=1k count=5k
@@ -228,12 +230,21 @@ newfs md0c
mount /dev/md0c /mnt
.Ed
.Pp
-To mount an ISO 9660 CD image file:
+To create an
+.Xr md 4
+device out of an ISO 9660 CD image file
+.Ns ( Fl a
+and
+.Fl t Ar vnode
+are implied), using the first available
+.Xr md 4
+device, and then mount the new memory disk:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f cdimage.iso` /mnt
+mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr md 4 ,
+.Xr ffs 7 ,
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr mdmfs 8 ,
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