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authormrg <mrg@NetBSD.org>1998-09-08 10:08:30 +0000
committermrg <mrg@NetBSD.org>1998-09-08 10:08:30 +0000
commit01735ee7db62a54087f4559bd5cfc52fbff2b2cc (patch)
tree1c0af2e0beac3b6ea02359122e7bfd45900b9f6c /share
parent077a042a3f448fe0b6b34f656789513c81a554b8 (diff)
properly document diskless swapfiles.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/diskless.817
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/diskless.8 b/share/man/man8/diskless.8
index cc05a484abc..b36120dfcff 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/diskless.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/diskless.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: diskless.8,v 1.14 1998/07/18 23:03:05 frueauf Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: diskless.8,v 1.15 1998/09/08 10:08:30 mrg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Gordon W. Ross, Theo de Raadt
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -232,8 +232,7 @@ myclient root=server:/export/myclient/root
.It 6.
Build the swap file for myclient:
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# mkdir /export/myclient
-# cd /export/myclient
+# cd /export/myclient/root
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=16k count=1024
.Ed
This creates a 16 Megabyte swap file.
@@ -249,16 +248,6 @@ It can be as simple as copying and modifying the server's root
filesystem, or perhaps you need to get those files out of the
standard binary distribution.
.Pp
-Historically, it has been necessary to create a mount point for the
-client's swap:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-# mkdir /export/myclient/root/swap
-.Ed
-In
-.Nx
-1.3, the swap file can simply be located on an NFS volume and specified
-by path name in /etc/fstab.
-.Pp
.It 8.
Export the required filesystems in
.Pa /etc/exports :
@@ -312,7 +301,7 @@ ie.
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
myserver:/export/myclient/root / nfs rw 0 0
myserver:/usr /usr nfs rw 0 0
-myserver:/export/myclient/swap none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap
+/swap none swap sw
.Ed
.Pp
Note, you must specify the swap file in