Questions tagged [tmpfs]
tmpfs is a common name for a temporary file storage facility on many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but stored in volatile memory instead of a persistent storage device.
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How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs?
How can I create consistent snapshots of tmpfs or any RAM disks?
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Can I put /tmp and /var/log in a ramdisk on OS X?
For non-critical Linux systems, I often move things like /tmp and /var/log to tmpfs to save on some disk writing. I've been doing this for a year or so and if I ever need the logs across reboots, I ...
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Is using a Virtual PC on a RAM DISK super fast? (putting the .vhd file in a RAM DISK)
I wonder how or if any one tried to create a RAM DISK, and then put the 2GB (or sometimes 1.2GB) .vhd file into it, and then run the virtual PC using this image.
It should be running super fast, as ...
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How tmpfs works in Debian?
I run df -h and found on my Debian Squeeze two tmpfs directory,
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
Then, I added a line in ...
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/tmp broken: mount doesn't show anything
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 and I've got the following problem:
The folder /tmp normally has a tmpfs mounted in it. On one machine, this isn't the case anymore. I don't know what happened to have it that way.
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