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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] File systems ?</H1>
    <B>Liam R E Quin</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jun  7 20:24:26 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 05:43 -0400, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
&gt;<i> On Friday 01 Jun 2012 17:22 my mailbox was graced by a message from David W. 
</I>&gt;<i> Hodgins who wrote:
</I>[...]
&gt;<i> &gt; They are tmpfs filesystems, which by definition means they exist in ram
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; only.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I wonder how they can exist in RAM given the total size of the tmpfs 
</I>&gt;<i> partitions is almost double the installed RAM of the computer.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Soy, until I can make sense of this stuff, it is back to Mageia 1.
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How will that help you fix your script? :-)

Check with df -h to see you get sane values. A tmpfs partition won't use
more memory than the &quot;used&quot; portion. Your script should of course be
using the device part of the df output...

Liam

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