Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author: Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes > directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs. > Wouldn't it be better to fix tmpfs/ramfs to report something sensible, even if it's artificial? Perhaps reporting the cardinality of the directory, if that happens to be easily available. N.B.: X/KDE will not run on a ramfs, because it reports as a size-zero filesystem in "df". Switching to tmpfs solved that for me. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/