From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.92 (like Gecko) Description of problem: The contents of a tmpfs file system may be paged out. Paged out memory is paged in at swapoff time, while the contents of a tmpfs are discarded when it is umounted. Putting "umount -a -t tmpfs" before the swapoff line in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt can potentially save hundreds of megs of data from being needlessly read from disk. This can save battery on a laptop and will save time on any machine while not providing any disadvantage. If the amount of data stored on the tmpfs file system is greater than the size of physical memory then swapoff isn't going to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.17-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info:
Fixed in initscripts-8.26-1. Thanks for your report.