How to put a file in RAM (Was : Re: Clear the computer's memory?)

[Michael R Head]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 13:18 -0600, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:01:59 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:
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> > : is there an easy way (dont mind the command line, but best if drag'n
> > drop is enough) to copy a (movie) file entirely in ram, then read from it
> > (the way you did on AmigaOS with the ramdrive)? Any ramdrive enable by
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> Use tmpfs for /tmp, then just copy the movie to /tmp before viewing it.  

Or if you don't want to do that, you can do this:

Open terminal and execute these commands:
$ mkdir $HOME/ramdrive
$ sudo mount -t tmpfs ramdrive $HOME/ramdrive


The df -h to see how much space you've got in your ram drive.

mike

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