Re: Is /dev/shm needed for 2.4.x kernel?
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:58:58PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
> > I have a question about /dev/shm...
> >
> > On my Aurora SPARC Linux 0.32 systems, running 2.4.x kernels, I have
> > this information from mount:
>
> /dev/shm is for shared memory. It's not required, except in some cases.
>
> You can enable it on Debian by rebuilding the kernels, and it will
> automatically be mounted on bootup.
Well, the kernels are what they are,.. that is they're Rob's build,
but I guess I need to create /dev/shm.... Is that an ordinary mkdir
/dev/shm or do I need someting more elaborate?
Cheers,
/ChJ
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