sticky directory
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jun 5 09:57:31 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:52 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi Olivier
>
> > as far as i know is /dev/shm a default with rh and fc...
> > its a "ramdisk" (in lack of better terms...)
>
> A ramdisk of 512mb? Isn't that a bit far-fetched of FC? I mean sure I got
> 1024Mb of Ram but that's not for it to be wasted on a Ramdisk that isn't used
> by anyone.
>
> ok after further investigation I see this in fstab
>
> /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> Can I remove this line? Who is using this tmpfs? What is it function?
/dev/shm is used for inter-process communication. Removing it will
probably cause various things to break.
Paul.
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