[Gllug] Question on /dev/shm

Dave Jones davej at suse.de
Wed Jul 10 10:19:17 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:16:47AM +0100, John Southern wrote:
 > >  > Thoughts about NOT mounting /dev/shm, to stop users using  this
 > >  > as a free scratch area.
 > > You could always just limit the maximum size using the 'size' mount
 > > option.
 > Could you resize as you go along using swap space if a task needed it?

Not without a remount afaik

        Dave.

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