On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > -----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.
AFAIK, /auto was intended to be used by auto-mounting services like "amd" and "autofs". Stretching for this one. /tftpboot is required if you'll be setting up the host to act as a tftp (trivial ftp) server. My experience with this is centered around the management of core network devices that can read/write configs and accept software updates for their firm/soft ware. For me, that is writing configs and updating IOS for Cisco Systems equipment. > 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 > - -- That's why I'm a mail list junkie. Learns all sorts of neat/cool stuff everyday. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
