> Any idea what's the purpose of /dev/shm? It seems it is not being used > at all i.e. the dir is always empty. SharedMemory. Applications that talking to eachother uses this device. It is RAM not a hdd. It is used a lot on my system. If you know DDE on windows.. its called shm in linux :) > Can I point some apps's tmp dir to /dev/shm? No leave it alone is my guess. Danny -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
