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Old 01-06-2015
Increasing size for /dev/shm

Hello,

How do I increase the size of /dev/shm ?

Additional pv have been added and rootlv has been extended How can I extend /dev/shm?


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Vishal
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Old 01-06-2015
/dev/shm is a RAMdisk. Find where its options are defined in your distribution and alter them. It's difficult to be less vague than this without knowing your distribution.
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