disk usage

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> writes:

> ran a df -a this morning on my laptop, and found this entry
>
> lrm 127968 18856 109132 15% /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/volatile
>
> I hadn't noticed that before.  Can someone here enlighten me as to what
> this is ?

This is mounted by Linux Restricted Modules (lrm).  A bit more
information if you look at the package
"linux-restricted-modules-common" or if you read the initialisation
file "/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common".

"lrm" appears to have changed name to "tmpfs" in Edgy.

	Affi