[SlugBug] what is /dev/shm ???

[Dr Eric Edward Moore]

Bill Best <bill at commedia.org.uk> writes:

> none         /dev/shm         tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>
> so, is this partition real physical storage or is it a virtual area
> for temporary files?

The latter.  Well, specifically, shm usually stands for "shared
memory", a place where processes can exchange data.  tempfs is a
RAM-based file system.

> ideally, i would like to transfer files into it as i need to use the
> space - but i suspect that this is neither possible and/or it's a
> silly thing to do.

it's not actually useful space.

-- 
Eric E. Moore