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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:09:14 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm
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Chris Meadors wrote:
> 
> On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > <HARP>
> > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent
> > set when someone suggested it.  Use /dev/shm.
> > </HARP>
> 
> And I'll ask again...  If this is now the recommend mount point, can we
> have devfs create this directory for us?
> 

Richard?

	-hpa

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