On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:53:10AM -0700, Steve Pirk wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Given wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Steve Pirk wrote: >> [...] >>> Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only, >>> I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is >>> up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is >>> also acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be >>> faster than the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future. >> >> Hmm --- that's interesting; maybe it's just me! Did you not need the >> mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial to make apt-get work, then? >> > > I put this comamnd into the end of rc.local so it gets created at boot > time :-) Next fstab tweak will be to mount /var/cache/apt on a real disk > instead of tmpfs. Looks like tmpfs gets deleted like /tmp used to on old > Solaris systems. A hold over from the old unix systems that did not have > a lot of disk space maybe?
A tmpfs is an in-memory filesystem -- it's contents are never persisted to disk (except as swap) and, as with the rest of memory, disappear at reboot. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
