On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:02:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> > 'man mount' explains it all ...  
> 
> Well, it outlines it (smile).

:-)

I'll rephrase that:

'man mount' explains it all, for small values of all.

> > ... but the option you want is size, which defaults to 50 % .  
> 
> That looks ok : I assume that's the maximum,
> ie it doesn't take up that much memory unless it's needed.

Exactly, it uses what it needs, size sets the upper limit.


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