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Re: Floppy and tftp - was Woody Freeze



On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:14:10AM -0500, Taral wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:21:48PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > I just add some lines to /etc/fstab:
> > > 
> > > /dev/ram        /tmp            ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > > /dev/ram1       /var/run        ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > > /dev/ram2       /var/state      ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > > /dev/ram3       /var/lock       ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > > /dev/ram4       /var/account    ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > > /dev/ram5       /var/log        ramfs   defaults,rw,auto,dev      0       0
> > 
> > May I recommend swapfs instead?
> 
> Swapfs?

It's a 2.4 filesystem that is better than ramfs -- expands and can be
swapped out if necessary. Formerly known as "shmfs".

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