Hi SuSErs :) <df> shows as mounted, but 0% used :- shmfs /dev/shm ~ I have looked at man shmfs & info shm , without result. Please, what is the significance & purpose of shmfs ? thanks. best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
* tabanna (tabanna@aig.forthnet.gr) [020729 23:22]:
<df> shows as mounted, but 0% used :-
shmfs /dev/shm
Please, what is the significance & purpose of shmfs ?
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt (/dev/shm is the mountpoint). If you set TMPDIR=/dev/shm most programs will use it for temp files. On my laptop I symlink it to ~/tmp as well. Of course, once you reboot everything there is gone. -- -ckm
On 29 Jul 02, Christopher Mahmood (ckm@suse.com) wrote:
* tabanna (tabanna@aig.forthnet.gr) [020729 23:22]:
<df> shows as mounted, but 0% used :-
shmfs /dev/shm
Please, what is the significance & purpose of shmfs ?
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt (/dev/shm is the mountpoint). If you set TMPDIR=/dev/shm most programs will use it for temp files. On my laptop I symlink it to ~/tmp as well.
Of course, once you reboot everything there is gone.
Is there anything wrong with mounting it to /tmp initially? -- Stephen Patterson Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:20:40AM +0000, tabanna wrote:
Hi SuSErs :)
<df> shows as mounted, but 0% used :-
shmfs /dev/shm
~ I have looked at man shmfs & info shm , without result.
Please, what is the significance & purpose of shmfs ?
It is for support of POSIX Shared Memory and it reflects RAM and Swap based storage (which will be gone if you reboot the machine). Ciao, Marcus
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