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. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>