On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> What is the best line for  /etc/fstab ?  The only example I have is :
> 
>   'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0'
> 
> This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way.

man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, which
defaults to 50%. I use 80% which is what gives the somewhat odd size of
13GB. This is based on physical RAM, but tmpfs will use swap if there is
not enough memory.


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Neil Bothwick

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