On 08/07/2014 03:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> so it went from 4 to 3 tmpfs processes?? >> or is it just the lack of the tmpfs process /tmp ?? > > First, /tmp starts out as just a directory on the root filesystem ("/"). > > Before your reboot, the system created a tmpfs filesystem and mounted > it at /tmp. Therefore it's listed as a separate filesystem in "df" > (because there IS a separate filesystem of type "tmpfs" mounted there) > and it's 3.9G in size (meaning you probably have 8G of RAM). > > After your reboot, /tmp remains just a directory on your / filesystem. > It won't display as a separate filesystem (because nothing's mounted > there) and your / filesystem is 20G with 5.6G free at the moment. > > This new layout (with 5.6G free) would have been enough to create the > ISO image in /tmp, whereas with the tmpfs crap, /tmp was only 3.9G and > half your RAM was sucked up by that. Now you have all 8G of RAM > available. thank you! makes sense.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org