Re: tmpfs where's it supposed to go?

"kirill j." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
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"daniel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> i thought i installed my system right, and when i typed "df -h" the
machine
> told me i had three mounted partitions:
>
> filesystem  size  used  avail  use  mounted on
> /dev/hda3   1.4g  747m   627m  55%  /
> tmpfs       1.0m  116k   908k  12% /mnt/.init.d
> /dev/hdb1    37g   33m    34g   1% /var/spool/mail
>
> but then i went poking around in /etc/fstab and found this:
>
>   # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm...
>   # ...
>   # ...
>   # ...
>   # ...
>
> # tmpfs  /dev/shm  tmpfs  defaults  0 0
>
> so i thought "uncomment that tmpfs line... 'cause that /mnt/.init.d
doesn't
> look right"...  and so i rebooted my machine and now "df -h" gives me
this:

/mnt/.init.d looks very right!
It's needed for gentoo init-scripts and doesn't exist in /etc/fstab, gentoo
takes care of it.

use for it, just leave it commented, that's what I did too :D


>
> filesystem  size  used  avail  use  mounted on
> /dev/hda3   1.4g  747m   627m  55%  /
> tmpfs       1.0m  116k   908k  12% /mnt/.init.d
> /dev/hdb1    37g   33m    34g   1% /var/spool/mail
> tmpfs        23m     0    22m   0% /dev/shm
>
> so now i have two tmpfs's...  which one is right?  if the bottom one is
> right, how do i get rid of the top one?  and where's my swap?

Both tmpfs are right. Comment /dev/shm out if you don't have any use for it,
as I mentioned.
swap is here: # more /proc/swaps
Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 partition        65640   11992   -1

or /proc/meminfo

cya
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