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31 .Dd September 18, 2010
36 .Nd mount an efficient memory file system
40 .Op Fl f Ar maxfilesize
52 command attaches an instance of the efficient memory file system to the
53 global file system namespace.
56 parameter only exists for compatibility with the other mount commands and
58 The directory specified by
60 is converted to an absolute path before use and its attributes (owner,
61 group and mode) are inherited unless explicitly overridden by the options
64 The following options are supported:
65 .Bl -tag -width XoXoptions
69 to copy the underlying file system into the tmpfs mount being created
71 .It Fl f Ar maxfilesize
72 Specifies the maximum file size of the file system.
74 Specifies the group name or GID of the root inode of the file system.
75 Defaults to the mount point's GID.
77 Specifies the mode (in octal notation) of the root inode of the file system.
78 Defaults to the mount point's mode.
80 Specifies the maximum number of nodes available to the file system.
81 If not specified, the file system chooses a reasonable maximum given its
82 size at mount time, which can be limited with
85 Options are specified with a
87 flag followed by a comma-separated string of options.
92 man page for possible options and their meanings.
94 Specifies the total file system size.
95 If zero is given (the default), the available amount of memory (including
96 main memory and swap space) will be used.
97 Note that four megabytes are always reserved for the system and cannot
98 be assigned to the file system.
100 Specifies the user name or UID of the root inode of the file system.
101 Defaults to the mount point's UID.
104 Every option that accepts a numerical value as its argument can take a
107 to indicate bytes (the default), a trailing
109 to indicate kilobytes, a trailing
111 to indicate megabytes or a trailing
113 to indicate gigabytes.
114 Note that both lowercase and uppercase forms of these letters are allowed.
116 The following command mounts a tmpfs instance over the
118 directory, inheriting its owner, group and mode settings:
120 .Ic "mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp"
122 The following command mounts a tmpfs instance over the
124 directory, setting a 20 megabytes limit in space, owned by the
126 user and belonging to the
128 group, with a restricted 0700 mode:
130 .Ic "mount -t tmpfs -o -s20M -o -ujoe -o -gusers -o -m0700 tmpfs /mnt"
134 .Ic "mount -t tmpfs -o size=20M,uid=joe,gid=users,mode=0700 tmpfs /mnt"
142 utility first appeared in
145 File system meta-data is not pageable.
146 If there is not enough main memory to hold this information, the system may
147 become unstable or very unresponsive because it will not be able to allocate
149 A malicious user could trigger this condition if he could create lots of
150 files inside a size-unbounded tmpfs file system.
151 Limiting the number of nodes per file system
153 will prevent this; the default value for this setting is also often adjusted
154 to an adequate value to resolve this.