On 20120327_065717, Dom wrote: > On 27/03/12 03:15, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On 20120326_135131, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>On 3/26/2012 12:29 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >>>So how do I turn off ramfs on a wheezy box where it was installed as > >>>part of the initial net-inst install, and seems to be involved it > >>>the proper functioning of the file system root ( / ) ??? > >> > >>You don't "turn off" tmpfs as it's used by other system functions. You > >>simply want to mount /tmp on a different (real) filesystem. As I > >>mentioned above, try unmounting /tmp and then creating a /tmp with the > >>permissions I mentioned above. Then search for the answer to disabling > >>the system level mount of /tmp on tmpfs. > > This has been mentioned here quite recently. > > Edit /etc/default/rcS. > > At the end of the file you will find this entry: > > # mount /tmp as a tmpfs > RAMTMP=yes > > Change the "yes" to "no". > > Reboot. > > This will only affect /tmp. There are other entries for the other > ramfs filesystems, but they take very little memory and so can be as > they are. > > -- > Dom
Thanks. It works. I feel much better now. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120327155610.gb31...@big.lan.gnu
