Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:45:05 +0100 | From | Sean Hunter <> | Subject | Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:46:39PM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote: > So no go with ram disks (this is kernel 2.4.18 on a 3 gig RAM dual PIII > 1gig, BTW). So now to try tmpfs. Since I need to copy the existing files in > /etc off to tmpfs I have to create a "temporary" tmpfs, copy /etc off to it > then create another tmpfs on top of the existing /etc and copy from the > "temporary" tempfs back to the new /etc. I came up with the following > commands: > mount -w -n -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /mnt > cp -axf /etc /mnt > mount -w -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /etc > cp -axf /mnt/etc/* /etc/ > umount /mnt > # -- Reapeat for /var and /tmp --
Wouldn't this be easier?
mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm cp -axf /etc/* !$ mount --bind /dev/shm /etc
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