On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 05:43 -0400, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > On Friday 01 Jun 2012 17:22 my mailbox was graced by a message from David W. > Hodgins who wrote: [...] > > They are tmpfs filesystems, which by definition means they exist in ram > > only. > > I wonder how they can exist in RAM given the total size of the tmpfs > partitions is almost double the installed RAM of the computer. > > Soy, until I can make sense of this stuff, it is back to Mageia 1.
How will that help you fix your script? :-) Check with df -h to see you get sane values. A tmpfs partition won't use more memory than the "used" portion. Your script should of course be using the device part of the df output... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
