-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith Antoine spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > What is /dev/shm anyway? > Other than that I have two folders in / that I am unsure of /auto is > suposedly empty and I cannot delete it. I also have a /tftpboot which has a > depth of folers but does not seem to have a boot in it.
shared memory. the kernel uses it for IPC communicatins and other socket type things. You can use it for temporary places too.. it's a ramdisk (kinda). I currently do this on the mothership: mkdir -p /dev/shm/tmp /dev/shm/var/lock /dev/shm/var/run mount --bind /dev/shm/tmp /tmp mount --bind /dev/shm/var/lock /var/lock mount --bind /dev/shm/var/run /var/run this makes /tmp, /var/lock, /var/run all ramdisks , amazingly fast, and they clean themselves out when you reboot. also, they don't take up an disk space - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org "The Computer made me do it." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Cq0QSrrWWknCnMIRApYCAKCL2YCXZWkJdEIINRR8sEeroIKncwCdGBAR XqFhEDRjEeyD68Os46AKqQY= =khkc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
