tempfs

[Furnish, Trever G]

> Is that normal?

Yes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ugo Bellavance [mailto:ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:28 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: tempfs
> 
> 
> Thanks kevin,
> 
> Do you think we sould put that in the faq?
> 
> Another question... I'm just unsure about one thing: when I 
> do a df, I see nothing in /dev/shm.  However, I do see the 
> right amount of data (I copied a few files there just to 
> test), in my new mount point. Is that normal?
> 
> See:
> 
> [root at bobby incoming]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8             244M  118M  113M  52% /
> /dev/sda1              99M  9.2M   85M  10% /boot
> /dev/sda7             487M  133M  329M  29% /home
> none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda9              99M  5.8M   88M   7% /tmp
> /dev/sda2             1.5G  666M  735M  48% /usr
> /dev/sda6             742M  205M  500M  30% /var
> /dev/sda10             32G   72M   31G   1% /var/lib
> /dev/sda5             981M   34M  897M   4% /var/spool
> none                  251M   31M  221M  13% 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Spicer, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK]
> > Envoyé : Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:17 PM
> > À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Objet : Re: tempfs
> > 
> > 
> > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >         Is there a how-to on how to use tempfs with
> > > mailscanner?  I use RH9.  Thanks,
> > 
> > No, I don't think so...
> > 
> > 
> > But then it doesn't really need a howto.....
> > 
> > Add this line to /etc/fstab
> > 
> > none /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > 
> > Then stop mailscanner and do this...
> > 
> > mount /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> > 
> > ... then start MailScanner
> > 
> > 
> > Works for me on Mandrake 9 and Iguess it would work with 
> > pretty much any distro/kernel that supports tmpfs.  (so RH9 
> > should be fine).
> > 
>