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cizzi 01-11-2004 09:49 AM

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can someone tell me what /dev/shm is below?

[cizzi@Cactus cizzi]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 55644280 2025560 50792084 4% /
/dev/hda2 101107 9325 86561 10% /boot
none 256924 0 256924 0% /dev/shm

TheOneKEA 01-11-2004 09:55 AM

/dev/shm is the mount point of tmpfs, a filesystem that lives in your RAM and can be used to store files until the next reboot, after which they are lost. See Documentation/fs/tmpfs.txt in any recent kernel source for more details.


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