On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:40:49AM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/shm 505 0 505 0% /dev/shm > 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. One might ask that, but one would be barking up the wrong tree. :) 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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
