From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril HAENEL Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:13:57 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Strange behavior with shell redirection In-Reply-To: <200912181431.37650.minimod@morethan.org> References: <4B2B7141.90804@free.fr> <20091218190354.5302ccfe@surf> <4B2BD851.1000902@free.fr> <200912181431.37650.minimod@morethan.org> Message-ID: <4B2C0CB5.20407@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > tmpFS uses swap as its backing store. How much swap do you have? By > default tmpFS will only use 50% of it. > > Also, you can limit the amount of ram used by tmpFS on the mount command and/or fstab. > > Mike > I have no swap at all : # cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/root / ext2 rw,noauto 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 Curious, for / it gives ext2, but in fact it's jffs2.... # df Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root 508.0M 20.4M 487.6M 4% / tmpfs 30.5M 1.6M 29.0M 5% /tmp Thanks for the informations, in the next release, I will write my log in /home/potentiostat/ and not /var/log/ ! Cyril -- Cyril Haenel Registered Linux User #332632