Mounting /tmp as a filesystem on Solaris 10?

Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to mount /tmp as a filesystem in Solaris 10? My server is running Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and the boot drive is encapsulated. After I change vfstab to mount /tmp as a standard filesystem, the server goes into single user mode whenever I reboot. It complains that it is unable to find the volume device for the /tmp filesystem. I also notice that the diskgroup where the /tmp volume resides is not imported so it seems like Veritas is not initialized at this point.
On a side note, I have been able to mount /tmp as a filesystem in the past in Solaris 9.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

dxchea wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to mount /tmp as a filesystem in Solaris 10? That's the default. I'm guessing you mean to mount it as a UFS filesystem instead?
My server is running Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and the boot drive is encapsulated. After I change vfstab to mount /tmp as a standard filesystem, the server goes into single user mode whenever I reboot. It complains that it is unable to find the volume device for the /tmp filesystem. I also notice that the diskgroup where the /tmp volume resides is not imported so it seems like Veritas is not initialized at this point.How did you create the filesystem you want to use for /tmp? What does your vfstab entry look like? Almost certainly the error is there.
On a side note, I have been able to mount /tmp as a filesystem in the past in Solaris 9./tmp is a filesystem by default on all versions of Solaris. I think you're trying to say something else here.
Darren

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