Disk defragmenter in Linux

[Mike McCarty]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:01 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Hmm, anyone can explain what /dev/shm is? And why it's 62MB?
>>This is a dual-boot WinXP/Linux.
> 
> 
> It's used for POSIX shared memory support in applications.
> Essentially it's just a ramdisk that takes up almost no space
> if there's nothing using it. You may want to check the following
> mailing list post[1] as well as a quick Google search for more
> information.
> 
> [1] http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200204/msg00015.html
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 

Thank you very much. I had thought perhaps SHM was shared memory,
but then it shows up as a file system...

Anyway, thanks!

Mike
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