Re: Ramdisks and tmpfs problems

[Sean Hunter]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:46:39PM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
> So no go with ram disks (this is kernel 2.4.18 on a 3 gig RAM dual PIII
> 1gig, BTW). So now to try tmpfs. Since I need to copy the existing files in
> /etc off to tmpfs I have to create a "temporary" tmpfs, copy /etc off to it
> then create another tmpfs on top of the existing /etc and copy from the
> "temporary" tempfs back to the new /etc. I came up with the following 
> commands:
> mount -w -n -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /mnt
> cp -axf /etc /mnt
> mount -w -t tmpfs -o defaults tmpfs /etc
> cp -axf /mnt/etc/* /etc/
> umount /mnt
> # -- Reapeat for /var and /tmp --

Wouldn't this be easier?

mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm
cp -axf /etc/* !$
mount --bind /dev/shm /etc