Re: Disk defragmenter in Linux

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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!
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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