Re: [newbie] /dev/shm (again)

2002-01-13 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:57 pm, Smiley wrote: Thanks to who explained me /dev/shm (ach... I dleted the mail :( ); one thing I wonder, anyway: when I type df (diskfree) on a terminal, I now can see something like this: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

[newbie] /dev/shm (again)

2002-01-12 Thread Smiley
Thanks to who explained me /dev/shm (ach... I dleted the mail :( ); one thing I wonder, anyway: when I type df (diskfree) on a terminal, I now can see something like this: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc5 1965344 1342184523324 72%

Re: [newbie] /dev/shm

2002-01-11 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Friday 11 January 2002 08:30 pm, Smiley wrote: Could somebody tell me what's in /dev/shm, please? Corrado I believe it is called shared memory (virtual memory) To create a new tmpfs filesystem with a maximum filesystem size of 32 MB, type: # mount tmpfs /dev/shm -t tmpfs -o size=32m