tmpfs on RAM howto
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Thu Sep 29 09:32:01 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 00:18 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a large amount of RAM (2go) on a laptop, and a friend adviced me
> to mount tmpfs into the RAM.
> When I 'free' or 'top' I see the RAM is never fully used.
You've got to be kidding me. Linux uses _all_ ram.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1518 1477 40 0 117 707
> Unfortunately, I dont know how to do that.
#mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs
#df -h | grep tmpfs
tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /mnt/tmpfs
#mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs -o size=100M
df -h | grep tmpfs
tmpfs 100M 0 100M 0% /mnt/tmpfs
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Ow Mun Heng
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