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(How) can I create a tmpfs as a regular (non-root) user?
The distribution is an Ubuntu server running the 2.6.35-30 Linux kernel.
I would like to have a directory that sits completely in memory. Is this possible without root privileges?
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Move /tmp to RAM
I am trying to move /tmp to RAM and obey good practice:
/var/tmp should NOT be placed in tmpfs, as it must survive reboots
not mount /tmp as a stand-alone tmpfs, but rely on /dev/shm or /run/shm
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Tmpfs only with RAM
How to be sure that a tmpfs filesystem can only deal with physical and it's not using a swap partition on disk ?
Since i have a slow HDD and a fast RAM i would like, at least, giving higher priority ...
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How to disable tmpfs on /run/shm in proper way
How to disable tmpfs on /run/shm ?
I searched through initscripts and found that the following code checks the entry in fstab, but what i should to place to fstab to not mount /run/shm ?
my distro is ...
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Does the (source) device in a tmpfs type mount mean anything?
I just went into /etc/fstab (Linux) and changed my line for /tmp (on which a specific ext4 partition was previously mounted) to tmpfs. This was clearly a bit silly, but I wasn't thinking. Anyway, I ...
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Graphical archive manager that uses /tmp
I am looking for a (preferably) graphical archive manager that can be configured to use /tmp as a scratch area for decompressing.
My setup is as follows: I have my local workstation with /home ...
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tmpfs and vm.swappiness
I have started tuning a bit Linux VM performance on my system (yes. I know that vm.swappiness=0 will kill kittens but I found 30-40 as much better for me as it improved my latency - probably at cost ...
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Moving /dev/shm/ to /run/shm in Arch?
Dolphin (The KDE4 FM) would not receive file change notifications for /dev/shm, but for /run/shm.
So now I would like to migrate /dev/shm/ to /run/shm, but I couldn't find the corresponding part in ...
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use `/run/shm` (formerly `/dev/shm`) as a temp directory
Is it good practice to create a directory in /run/shm (formerly /dev/shm) and use that like a temp directory for an application?
Background: I am writing black box tests for a program which does a ...
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What parts of the filesystem to tmpfs/squashfs/sparseimage for USB live system
I want to create a live system on a USB key / SDCard with Linux Mint 14 (KDE or Debian Edition) that stores data persistently. The USB key needs to have at least one fat32 partition. As storage for ...
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tmpfs performance
I use avconv to make screen recording of gameplays on linux (yeah, I'm sorry, I am one of them, but I get more excited about the scripts than playing it self), but recently my harddrive has gone and ...
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How to disable tmpfs on /media in openSUSE?
In OS 11.4 /media is a regular directory. Whatever I put there, it stays.
In OS 12.1 /media is tmpfs. Whatever I put there, on next restart is gone.
The question is -- how to get rid of tmpfs on ...
