11.10 LiveCD

[Koh Choon Lin]

Hi

I use the LiveCD almost exclusively for my work. Before 11.10 (ie.
11.04 and prior versions), I could use the live system with a 4GB
swapfile on an external drive. The PC has only 1 GiB of RAM. Thus, I
could install 1-2 GiB of software and have browser cache of 1 GiB
without running out of space for each session. On 11.10, it seems
software, cache, temp files, etc.. are not allocated into this
swapfile and instead into RAM _only_. The system would run into "Out
of space" errors once I installed a few software.

Anyone knows how to shift the used memory back to swap?


$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow                  496M  496M     0 100% /
udev                  489M  4.0K  489M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 199M  772K  198M   1% /run
/dev/sdb1             3.8G  695M  3.1G  19% /cdrom
/dev/loop0            668M  668M     0 100% /rofs
tmpfs                 496M   52K  496M   1% /tmp
none                  5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
none                  496M  248K  496M   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1              75G   19G   57G  25% /media/0A3C014A3C01326D

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow                  496M  496M     0 100% /
udev                  489M  4.0K  489M   1% /dev
 tmpfs                 199M  772K  198M   1% /run
/dev/sdb1             3.8G  695M  3.1G  19% /cdrom
/dev/loop0            668M  668M     0 100% /rofs
tmpfs                 496M   52K  496M   1% /tmp
none                  5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
none                  496M  248K  496M   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1              75G   19G   57G  25% /media/0A3C014A3C01326D
ubuntu at ubuntu:/tmp$


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Regards
Koh Choon Lin