Hello

Thorn (<Raptor@Etruscan.Warrior>) wrote:
> On 10 Jun 2005 01:28:21 -0700, serwerr@gmail.com Cried: Read These
> Runes!:
>> so my quastion is why /dev/shm is never used on my system?
>> or mayby it's used but I can't see it?
>>
>>
>> #df -h
>>
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda2 25G 24G 1.8G 94% /
>> /dev/hda1 13G 13G 86M 100% /mnt/xp
>> none 379M 0 379M 0% /dev/shm
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Is "none" a valid filesystem? Try changing that to tmpfs and see what
> happens.

No, but that is not the file system, it is the device file. And because
tmpfs is a virtual file system, it doesn't habe one. Same like proc,
sys, usbdevfs and all the other virtual file systems.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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