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Re: non-persistent storage?

On Fri 2019-12-13 (07:27), Jürgen Wagner wrote:
> And regarding the tmpfs (RAM disk) , you can use /dev/shm.
> 
> # date > /dev/shm/key
> # cat /dev/shm/key
> Fri Dec 13 07:26:03 CET 2019

/dev/shm ist not a tmpfs on cygwin:

/dev/shm: df -TH /dev/shm
Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
C:/cygwin64    ntfs   34G   25G  9.1G  74% /

When I write something into this direcory and reboot, it is still there.


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