Steve Pirk wrote: > I put this comamnd into the end of rc.local so it gets created at boot > time :-) Next fstab tweak will be to mount /var/cache/apt on a real disk > instead of tmpfs. Looks like tmpfs gets deleted like /tmp used to on old > Solaris systems. A hold over from the old unix systems that did not have > a lot of disk space maybe?
Tmpfs, as the name suggests, is a temporary file system. It is being created on boot and removed on shutdown/reboot. E.g. /dev is mounted as tmpfs, you can also mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs (RAMRUN and RAMLOCK in /etc/default/rcS) on a standard Debian installation. Cheers, -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
