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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > df says ram0 has 3567K
>
> No it doesn't.  df says the filesystem
> on ram0 has 3567kb used.
>
> The filesystem itself is 4096kb.

I still don't understand why this worked three times before.  Does ram1 
always have less space on it than 4096K (ram0)?  It had lost+found.

> > It looks like I will need to find SW71 cardmgr and otherwise just copy 
> > over the files in /pcmcia, and the modules for pcmcia listed in one of 
> > those files.
>
> installpkg pcmcia.tgz
Do I need the entire package or is that where cardmgr resides (with 
modules)?

> > df said 4104 available 13 used
> >
> > What exactly makes this file system expand when I do
> > cat > /tmp/ramdisk?
>
> It doesn't expand.  4,104,000 is the available storage
> space on the filesystem, not the actual size of the
> filesystem (including overhead) 4,194,304.

It looks like this method could never work, cat /dev/ram0 > /tmp/ramdisk,
because the file system will not fit.  I will use the /hd instead.

Some day this will make more sense.

> When you cat /dev/ram, you get the full filesystem,
> not just the current files on the filesystem.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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