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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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mount_tmpfs — Mount tmpfs File Systems

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/mount [-F tmpfs][-o size=sz][-O] special
						mount-point
					

Description

tmpfs is a memory-based file system that uses kernel resources relating to the VM system and page cache as a file system.

Use the mount command to attach a tmpfs file system to the file-system hierarchy at the path-name location mount-point, which must already exist. If mount-point has any contents before the mount operation, these remain hidden until the file system is once again unmounted. The attributes (mode, owner, and group) of the root of the tmpfs file system are inherited from the underlying mount-point, provided that those attributes are determinable. If not, the root's attributes are set to their default values. ...

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