Re: Why is /var/tmp not mounted on swap?

In article <9_2Jg.1632$Cq4.510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Darren Dunham <ddunham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken Gray <see-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
/tmp is NOT mounted on swap - it's tmpfs, which is backed by swap. df -k
lies when it says "swap" for /tmp.

If tmpfs uses swap for the storage, why is df incorrect to show "swap"
as the device?

I don't see the error. It's true that not *all* of swap is available to
tmpfs, but I don't think that's what you're referring to.

I was over-simplifying, but the reason why I say that df lies about swap
is that you'll see the numbers change based on the allocations made by
tmpfs - so what it's showing you is how much of the swap reserve tmpfs
is using, not the amount of swap available.

It's not really an error, just an annoyance to me. I seem to have many
things these days that annoy me :).

--
Ken

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