Does your df look like mine?

[integr8e]

Re: Does your df look like mine?

I see, their not symlinked to anything either.

[Snowhog]

Re: Does your df look like mine?

The files are 'session-only' and exist during the current running session. Shutdown and the entries are removed (and I believe, the directories as well - I'd have to 'test' that belief to be positive).

[Snowhog]

Re: Does your df look like mine?

Okay, realized that I have Feisty installed on this HD. I tested my belief. I created a directory called tmp/FEISTY and mounted my Feisty partition to it. The /var/run directory exists (so it isn't deleted during a shutdown), and within it, several subdirectories, but those are all empty. The other tmpfs directories are also present, and some do have files/symlinks and such.

So, the /var/run directory is there for 'session-only' data/files. The others are created during installation and remain. They are identified by, and for, the system, as type tmpfs. I won't profess to understand the wisdom of why this is so, but accept that the minds who decided to make it so know what they are doing.

[integr8e]

Re: Does your df look like mine?

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:1-3 KJV)

[Priam]

Re: Does your df look like mine?

So. from reading Daniel Robbins' article, it appears that temporary files systems grow and shrink as needed. What is seen in df is the maximum memory size, including swap, it may occupy. The purpose, of course, is to speed up access to important files. (See also the next article on devfs.)

Honestly, though, I really can't say Kubuntu looks faster than my previous Slackware system.

Regards to all!