On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > I even have set up a ramdisk in /var/tmp/portage for emerge. Except > for kdelibs its 1.5 Gigs are more than enough. And if the ramdisk > is empty, the free space is used for RAM.
Why not use the built-in /dev/shm directly, and avoid the overhead of a ramdisk? waltd...@d530 ~ $ ll /dev/shm total 0 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Jun 21 14:46 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 14080 Jun 23 17:10 .. waltd...@d530 ~ $ echo "Hello World" > /dev/shm/greeting.txt waltd...@d530 ~ $ ll /dev/shm total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 Jun 24 21:01 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 14080 Jun 23 17:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 waltdnes users 12 Jun 24 21:01 greeting.txt waltd...@d530 ~ $ cat /dev/shm/greeting.txt Hello World waltd...@d530 ~ $ -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
