On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:04:32AM +1100, 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?
Hi, Mark. Check out the following list message: http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200204/msg00015.html And if you don't have the kernel docs installed on your system, you can find tmpfs.txt here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt Google searches: /dev/shm tmpfs.txt site:kernel.org Hope this helps, Ben -- Ben Logan Google Answers Researcher answers.google.com When you're searching for information, Google Answers. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
