Many thanks, Yes /etc/fstab does have this entry. Is this normal? I have another RH7.1 box (not as up to date as the one in question) and that entry does not exist. What is the purpose of tmpfs and the /dev/shm?
thansk again, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Steven W. Orr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 10:27 AM To: Mark Carroll Subject: Re: /dev/shm *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: =>Hi there, => =>I was just poking around on my RH7.1 box and found that the response to df-k =>was: => =>/dev/hda1 4047904 2342864 1499412 61% / =>none 22844 0 22844 0% /dev/shm => =>Can anyone tell me what the significance of /dev/shm is? I have not seen =>this before. I did a umount /dev/shm and it went away, however I am curoious =>as to how it got there. Any ideas? => =>Many thanks, =>Mark Look in your /etc/fstab You should see something like this: none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
