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 to cleanup tmp folder safely on Linux
I use RAM for my tmpfs /tmp, 2GB, to be exact. Normally, this is enough but sometimes, processes create files in there and fail to cleanup after themselves. This can happen if they crash. I need to ...
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Why is the filesystem larger than logical volume?
On the machine, there is a logical volume /dev/lvm/tmp of size 500MiB with the same size partition /dev/mapper/tmp that is mounted on /tmp.
Checking the logical volume:
# lvdisplay /dev/lvm/tmp
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Build Docker image on tmpfs
I have a Dockerfile that change file permissions to various folders, one of that is a node_modules
RUN chown -R 0:0 . ...
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Why does booting tmpfs overlayroot filesystem on read-only disk boot to emergency mode?
I enabled tmpfs overlayroot running following.
$ sudo sed -i 's/overlayroot=""/overlayroot="tmpfs"/g' /etc/overlayroot.conf
After rebooting, Ubuntu boots as read-only and ...
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How to read tmpfs as a block device in linux?
A typical linux machine mounts a tmpfs to store temporary files:
$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 953M 702M 203M 78% /
tmpfs 1.5G ...
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Cannot use newfs_hfs on ramdisk
I tried
ramfs_size_mb=2048
mount_point=/usr/local/var/mysql
# 1024 bytes per kibibyte
# 1024 kibibytes per mebibyte
# 512 bytes per sector
ramfs_size_sectors=$((${ramfs_size_mb}*1024*...
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Why am I able to mount arbitrary TMPFS as an unprivileged user with unshare?
While messing around with unshare, I stumbled on the following behavior in an unprivileged shell:
foo@pc $ id foo
uid=1000(foo) gid=1000(foo) groups=1000(foo),27(video),97(input)
foo@pc $ unshare -r -...
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How to take full advantage of your RAM on Linux
On the downloads page of Garuda Linux, they say that "we believe in the principle that unused RAM is wasted RAM". There are some performance comparisons on youtube, it wasn't well in stress ...
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Syncing Docker tmpfs to Disk?
I have a couple of Docker containers that constantly write to logs. This causes continuous disk I/O, particularly writes.
Is there a way to make Docker read/write to a ramdisk, which could ...
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How to create ramdisc for Prestashop cache on Debian
Recently I was struggling to create ram disk for Prestashop cache folder which will have read and write privilages. I am using Apache + Nginx (as reverse proxy) and PHP-FPM 5.6 (soon moving to 7.2)
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Docker system directories in tmpfs?
Does it make sense to mount any of Docker directories under /var/lib/docker as tmpfs to speed things up and reduce SSD wear?
~ # l /var/lib/docker/
total 56
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 28 02:02 ...
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How can I run postgres with data dir on /tmp?
I'm running automated integration tests using data stored in a postgres database. I need to start every test run with the same database contents. Instead of always clearing the database and importing ...
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Give space to a tiny computer (tmpfs with swap over nfs)
I have a tiny computer with not so much RAM (1-2GiB) and very little disk space in which I installed Gentoo. I also have space on a shared NFS.
In order to be able to compile any package, even the ...
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Should I expect programs that run from a tmpfs folder to run faster? (with and without I/O, inside and outside a Docker container)
On Linux, suppose I have an executable file. Let's look at two cases:
(A) A large portion of what the executable does is disk I/O;
(B) the executable doesn't do any disk I/O.
For each of the cases A ...
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tmpfs — deleting files won't free the space
Using fedora@latest, I have /tmp mounted as a tmpfs.
Sometimes I run some program that stores large files into it, until I fill it entirely.
I try to delete some files manually, hoping to free space,...
