[rhelv6-list] Problems resizing tmpfs under RHEL6

Benjamin Franz jfranz at freerun.com
Mon Feb 21 22:10:41 UTC 2011


On 02/21/2011 12:21 PM, Brian Long wrote:
> On 2/21/11 1:56 PM, carlopmart wrote:
>> On 02/21/2011 01:17 PM, carlopmart wrote:
>>> Yes, and works. But if I reboot my laptop, tmpfs uses only 50% of 
>>> memory ...
>> Please, any ideas??
> The mount man page says the following:
> "The tmpfs mount options for sizing ( size, nr_blocks, and nr_inodes)
> accept a suffix k, m or g for Ki, Mi, Gi (binary kilo, mega  and
> giga) and can be changed on remount."
>
> If % does not work in RHEL 6, have you tried "2g" instead of "2G"?  :-)

+1

I have /dev/shm set to 8g on one of my machines using 'size=8g'.

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Benjamin Franz




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