sticky directory

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:07:36AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:35:21PM +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> > df -m
> > Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/shm                   505         0       505   0% /dev/shm
> > 
> > Seems like 505Mb here
> 
> Look at the "Used" column -- it's 0Mb.
> 
I agree that the ramdisk is not a problem but the df -m does not show
anything to make you feel better. It tells us that 505 Mb are being
taken up by the partition but none of it is being used. One might ask
why am I giving up 505Mb  of my disk if none of it is being used.
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Aaron Konstam
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Trinity University
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