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energiya

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 29

[Solved] Some arch-related questions

Hi!
I just installed Arch for the first time (but not a complete linux noob) and I have some questions:

1. Why do /media and /srv (maybe from server?) exist? Are they needed by a desktop configuration? I don't like having useless things...
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2. What is /dev/shm? I see it's mounted after pts... I'm asking because when I "df -h" I get the following  and it hangs about 4 seconds on the /dev/shm line ...

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7             4.0G  2.4G  1.6G  61% /
none                  189M     0  189M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5              24G   24G  295M  99% /mnt/sda5
/dev/sda8             2.0G  189M  1.8G  10% /home

and in fstab

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

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3. I have installed the ck kernel with "pacman -Sy kernel26ck nvidia-71xx-ck lirc-ck" and found the sources in /usr/src/linux2.6.22-ck. Are these ready to compile? Doing so using them could influence in any way my current ck kernel? (I'm keeping it just in case).
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4. Is there a ncurses or X fronted for pacman? (I wont probably use it, but good to know)

As you can see this isn't my fist post on the forum but the first from Arch If I have any other questions I will search and ask.
Thanks!

Last edited by energiya (2007-08-22 11:37:19)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [Solved] Some arch-related questions

1. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
2. http://www.google.com/search?q=/dev/shm … 8&oe=UTF-8
3. Those are only kernel headers, useful for compiling kernel modules. Those are not full kernel sources - you can't compile a kernel out of them.
4. I remember seeing some simple ncurses frontend. Perhaps you'll be able to find it in Wiki/Community Contributions.

Welcome to Arch.

energiya

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 29

Re: [Solved] Some arch-related questions

Thanks lucke! I should have found the first two...
Searching with pacman -Ss I didn't found any kernel sources... it seems I must do all the dirty work with the vanilla kernel and patches...

nikron

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 130

Re: [Solved] Some arch-related questions

Thanks lucke! I should have found the first two...
Searching with pacman -Ss I didn't found any kernel sources... it seems I must do all the dirty work with the vanilla kernel and patches...

No need to do that, use abs.  You have to install cvs up cvsup to use abs, which pull all the PKGBUILDS for arch.  #abs is the program.  Then navigate to /var/abs/kernels/kernel26.  (You have to edit /etc/abs/abs.conf to get extra/community PKGBUILDS

energiya

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 29

Re: [Solved] Some arch-related questions

Thanks! I'm just trying to do so.