sticky directory

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 09:40 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't say that though; the device is /dev/shm, which is *not* part
of your disk.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>