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How to make a good guess for the swap partition size when using tmpfs?
I have an SSD, so space is a scarce resource. I'd like to use up as little as possible for swap. In fact, I have spent the last year completely without a swap partition (the computer has 6 GB RAM).
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Does memory allocated to tmpfs free itself when needed by an application?
I have 8GB of RAM and 4GB is dedicated to the tmpfs on /dev/shm.
There's nothing actually in /dev/shm, so I'm wondering, is this memory still available for applications to use?
If I needed to use ...
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Have I successfully created an ramfs drive?
I thought I had created a ramfs drive, but when I type df -H all I get is following.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 69G 8.5G 57G 14% /
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How do I unmount a tmpfs that is missing from /etc/mtab?
I have the following line in /etc/fstab:
none /home/hydra/tmp tmpfs user,noauto,size=1000M,uid=1001,gid=1001 0 0
I can do mount ~/tmp as user hydra and it gets mounted ok. The only problem is ...
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How can I allow normal users to mount tmpfs under subdirectories of their home directory?
How can I allow normal users to mount a tmpfs under any subdirectory owned by them?
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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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