Re: [iPAQ] full and no room

On Friday 04 June 2004 09:46, aamehl wrote:
> what is the tmpfs and how do I access it. I gather it is ram or
> something like it.

Yes, basically it's a RAMdisk. If you run "cat /etc/mtab", you should see a
line like this

tmpfs /mnt/ramfs tmpfs rw 0 0

you should also be able to find the following symlinks

/home/<user>/ramdisk -> /mnt/ramfs/home/<user>
/tmp -> mnt/ramfs/tmp
/var -> mnt/ramfs/var

in other words, /tmp and /var are already using tmpfs and you have a ramdisk
directory in your home directory that is linked to it as well. Note that you
will lose any files stored on the RAMdisk when you reboot, as usual.

I don't know if it's still being maintained or what it's status is, but you
might be interested in having a look at Erez Doron's non-volatile RAM disk
(NVRD) project. The old page is here

http://www.savan.com/erez/nvrd.html

but there is some more up-to-date information in the mailing list archives and
possibly elsewhere on handhelds.org (try Googling "nvrd site:handhelds.org").
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 20:56:22 EDT