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1. What is the significance and purpose of shmfs ?
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What is the significance and purpose of shmfs ?

See file://usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt (/dev/shm is the mountpoint). If you set TMPDIR=/dev/shm most programs will use it for temp files. Of course, once you reboot everything there is gone.


Updated: Tue, 03 Feb 2004
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