Shm is used by pulseaudio I think and also i copy my chromium profile from hd to shm an boot and then remove cache and copy the profile back to hd when i shutdown. Also it is used by one script that simply touches a lock file in there. Reproducing is as simple as just rebooting the pc and the permissions are broken and shm is mounted whit beautiful size of mere 10 mb and it used to mount whit a size of 1.4G :D (it broke my chromium profile :( as it didn't fit in there ) Il try to add those options and the size option too to the fstab and see if that helps, hopely this won't eat my chromium profile again :D -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)