Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:45:21 +0100 | | From | Sean Hunter <> | | Subject | Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems |
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:31:14PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On 10 April 2002 05:45, Sean Hunter wrote: > > Wouldn't this be easier? > > > > mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm > > cp -axf /etc/* !$ > > mount --bind /dev/shm /etc > > /dev is for devices, why do you use it for mounting filesystems?
Normally yes, but the tmpfs provides posix shared memory semantics and thus /dev/shm is the "normal" place to mount it. Don't blame me.
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