[Mimedefang] Creating & using a ram disk for Mimedefang's spoolfiles

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

Lisa Casey wrote:
> I'm using Redhat 7.2 and Mimedefang 2.48. I want to move
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang onto a RAMdisk.
> 
> I've looked at http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=27   I tried the
> command suggested for unix (mount -t tmpfs -o
> size=200m,mode=0700,uid=defang,gid=defang /dev/shm
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang) but got this error message:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/shm,
>        or too many mounted file systems

Hmmm... 7.2 is a bit old, but here's a thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/redhat-list@redhat.com/msg72057.html

Try "man mount" on your system and looking for tmpfs options.

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