30 Jul
2002
30 Jul
'02
19:15
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.