Re: ramfs settings

Ok, it seems to work...
but is there a way for the setting to take effect without rebooting ipaq?
otherwise inscreasing memory, doing something in ramfs, and then decreasing
it won't work?
I mean it will work, but I would want to increas actual ram size afterwards,
and would I be able to do so?

At 03:29 PM 7/2/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Monday 02 July 2001 14:41, you wrote:
>> Also, another question:
>> how come if wince rom image is 16 megs, I could upload files to ipaq with
>> wince?
>> I uploaded a few mp3 files when I had wince.
>> And they seemed to be there. I am not sure what would happen if I rebooted
>> it, but is there a way to do the same with linux?
>
>Your original output from df shows a ramfs filesystem mounted on /mnt/ramfs.
>This is the ramdisk, and it (actually, the wince equivalent) is where you
>were storing mp3s under wince3. So any files you put under /mnt/ramfs are
>stored in ram and not under the block device.
>
>It dynamically alters its size to only take up as much ram as the files
>stored in it. It has a default maximum of 1/2 the available ram but you can
>override this in /etc/fstab with a maxsize=xxx option where xxx is the
>maximum allowed size in Kb.
>
>I use this by symlinking ~/mp3 to /mnt/ramfs/mp3 and copying mp3s over with
>scp an.mp3 root@ipaq:mp3. No hassle - if only there was a decent QPE
>interface to madplay too!
>
>Did you get the use of your full 64Mb yet? IIRC it involves setting a kernel
>parameter, if someone else hasn't told you this already
>
>hope that helps
>
>Will
>
>--
>Will Stephenson
>University of Newcastle

Aleksandr Bogomolov
Received on Mon Jul 2 18:49:09 2001