I'm running mdev, so that may be related. Here's my story... a script I run to automatically process digital photos started blowing up on me. After much bashing of head against brick wall, I determined that /dev/shm now has an absolute max size of 10 megabytes! Any larger files could not be written to it. Here's all the uncommented stuff in /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd auto noauto,users,ro 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,noatime,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Meanwhile, my netbook, with the /dev/shm line commented out, runs just fine and handles large files in /dev/shm. I followed the example at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Complete_Handbook/Configuring_the_system with slightly more paranoid settings, e.g. noexec. What gives? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
