In the past I only heard that /proc and /sys are "RAM directories", now
I get /dev as well. thank you.
Tang Jianwei
On 07/06/2010 10:14 PM, John Kennedy wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, <m.r...@5-cent.us
<mailto:m.r...@5-cent.us>> wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 06:41:06PM +0800, Tang Jianwei wrote:
>
>> I tried to create some swap files in /dev directory for my desktop.
>> the dd and mkswap were ok. but when I try to swapon it, i get this:
>>
>> # swapon /dev/myswap
>> swapon: /dev/myswap: Invalid argument
>>
>> but when I mv the file to some other directory like /mnt or /, the
>> swapon works.
>>
>> could sb. tell me why?
Well, /dev is *not* a good place for anything but device files.
>
> /dev is not a real directory for data files.
<snip>
Um, er, what do you mean about it not being a "real" directory?
mark
I would say he means "real" as exists on a hard drive like /home of
/var as opposed to "virtual" as exists in RAM like /proc.
John
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