From: Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>
To: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sin.sloth.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:45:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410084505.A4493@dev.sportingbet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020409144639.A14678@sin.sloth.org>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:46:39PM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
> So no go with ram disks (this is kernel 2.4.18 on a 3 gig RAM dual PIII
> 1gig, BTW). So now to try tmpfs. Since I need to copy the existing files in
> /etc off to tmpfs I have to create a "temporary" tmpfs, copy /etc off to it
> then create another tmpfs on top of the existing /etc and copy from the
> "temporary" tempfs back to the new /etc. I came up with the following
> commands:
> mount -w -n -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /mnt
> cp -axf /etc /mnt
> mount -w -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /etc
> cp -axf /mnt/etc/* /etc/
> umount /mnt
> # -- Reapeat for /var and /tmp --
Wouldn't this be easier?
mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm
cp -axf /etc/* !$
mount --bind /dev/shm /etc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-09 18:46 Ramdisks and tmpfs problems Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-09 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-09 21:18 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 7:45 ` Sean Hunter [this message]
2002-04-10 15:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 10:45 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 11:52 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-04-10 14:49 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 11:01 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-10 14:23 ` Update - " Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 14:52 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-10 15:01 ` Geoffrey Gallaway
2002-04-10 16:03 ` Sean Hunter
2002-04-11 11:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-11 15:47 ` Christoph Rohland
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