On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 16:34 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:30, Matthew Miller wrote: > > It's true that if you don't know what the mount point /dev/shm is, you > > might think that you're giving up disk space, but if you know that it's not > > a disk device at all and realize that it's taken out of RAM as needed up to > > the defined limit (which as you can see defaults to about half of your > > physical RAM), then it *does* show you something to make you feel better. > > You're absolutely right and I do feel better about it now. It caught my > attention since Fedora Core 3 Heidelberg does not seem to have it. > > Thank you all for patiently explaining this to me. > I think FC3 does have it. That is what I am running and this is what I see [jeff@eye_gore ~]$ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on none 633 0 633 0% /dev/shm The only thing different from what was posted by Matt is that this shows the filesystem as "none" instead of "/dev/shm" > > Andy
