Timeline for What is the devtmpfs filesystem and how to shrink it?
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| Jun 22, 2017 at 12:40 | comment | added | Philip Couling | Note that for tmpfs the size is a maximum size. It is not using 212mb, it's using (next to) 0mb. Thats because device files are nothing more than a name and a reference, there's no file data. So the only memory overhead is holding the file names / permissions etc in memory. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | der_do | No, please NEVER ever edit /etc/mtab. That is generated based on /etc/fstab and keeps track of currently mounted filesystems. See <pre>man mount</pre> | |
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| May 4, 2014 at 19:00 | history | answered | user14633 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |