On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:01 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hmm, anyone can explain what /dev/shm is? And why it's 62MB? > This is a dual-boot WinXP/Linux. It's used for POSIX shared memory support in applications. Essentially it's just a ramdisk that takes up almost no space if there's nothing using it. You may want to check the following mailing list post[1] as well as a quick Google search for more information. [1] http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200204/msg00015.html Hope that helps! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key: 0xDA3634D7
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