OK, haven't heard anything from anyone, but I've been doing some poking around in the meantime. It appears that Mandrake 8.0 does not support the "size=" option for tmpfs. This strikes me as being extremely bogus, since the following article describes virtual filesystems in the 2.4 kernel very explicitly as supporting the "size=" feature:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs3.html What's *wrong* with this distribution?!?! It wouldn't let me have a nic accessing the internet through a cable modem, and an internal modem as a backup access device, either! I've never seen a distro that didn't support multiple internet access methodologies! Non-standard and stunningly inflexible. Yeah, Linux for the masses. Never had any problems like this with Caldera, just got fed up with their corporate bent. Maybe I should re-think my position. So far, I'm completely underwhelmed with Mandrake. It's a beautiful thing to look at, but shallow underneath. Pardon the negative attitude, but I get that way when I can't accomplish what I bought the distro for. I truly hope someone out there can offer solutions that will change my mind. Respectfully venting, Mike -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [expert] tmpfs in Mandrake 8.0 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:25:05 -0400 From: gnerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings. I'm new to the list, so don't be shy about correcting any bad etiquet I might inadvertently display. I recently installed Mandrake 8.0. I have a situation such that I want to create a tmpfs filesystem of a specific size so it can't hold more than will fit in my rio. I have the entry: /dev/shm /opt/mp3/rioload tmpfs size=64m 0 0 in /etc/fstab. It errors at boot time with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/shm, or too many mounted file systems Attempting a manual mount of /dev/shm of type tmpfs on that directory ends with the same error unless I specify the --bind option. Does anyone know how to involk --bind from /etc/fstab? Thanks in advance. Mike
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