Yes, I'm running 8.0 and when I do df I see the /dev/shm. Here is the output: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 76818080 8547000 64368892 12% / /dev/hda1 101089 14726 81144 16% /boot none 256708 0 256708 0% /dev/shm The problem I'm thinking is that there is no filesystem associated with /dev/shm.