Re: tmpfs?

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
19 Nov 2001 08:29:38 +0100


Hi Norberto,

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> I've configured my kernel (2.4.13-ac8) to use tmpfs, but it seems
> that it only uses half my physical memory (64 of 128MB).

,----[ Configure.help ]
| Virtual memory file system support
| CONFIG_TMPFS

[...]

| You can set limits for the number of blocks and inodes used by the
| filesystem with the mount options "size", "nr_blocks" and
| "nr_inodes". These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo,
| mega and giga and can be changed on remount.
|
| The initial permissions of the root directory can be set with the
| mount option "mode".
`----

So the configure help gives you the answer: Use the size mount
option.

Greetings
Christoph

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