How to Create a Temporary File System

1. Become superuser.

2. If necessary, create the directory where you want to mount the TMPFS and set permissions and ownership as necessary.

3. Create a temporary file system.

   # mount -F tmpfs swap mount-point

   -F tmpfs swap	A TMPFS file system.
   mount-point	The directory where the TMPFS file system is mounted.

4. To verify that a temporary file system called /visitors has been created and mounted in the /usr/tmp directory, use the mount command.

   $ mount
                           .
                           .
                           .
   /visitors on /usr/tmp on Wed May 28 15:27:16 1997
   $ ls /usr/tmp
   NTa0006h    ps_data      visitors

Example--Creating a Temporary File System

This example creates a new directory, /export/reports, and mounts a temporary file system at that point.

# mkdir /export/reports
# chmod 777 /export/reports
# mount -F tmpfs swap /export/reports

See the tmpfs(7FS) man page for more information.