Mount a temporary ram partition

mdmfs -s 256m md /mnt

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By: QNimbus

2012-12-22 14:25:07

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Mount a temporary ram partition

Makes a partition in ram which is useful if you need a temporary working space as read/write access is fast. Be aware that anything saved in this partition will be gone after your computer is turned off.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=1024m

ajrobinson · 2009-02-06 00:33:08 52
Toggle a temporary ram partition

Creates a temporary ram partition To use: ram 3 to make a 3gb partition (Defaults to 1gb) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ ram
/mnt/ram 1
$ ram
Enter to Remove Ram Partition 
/mnt/ram 0
```
3

ram() { mt=/mnt/ram && grep "$mt" < /proc/mts > /dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then read -p"Enter to Remove Ram Partition ";sudo umount "$mt" && echo $mt 0; else sudo mt -t tmpfs tmpfs "$mt" -o size=$(( ${1:-1} * 1024 ))m && echo $mt '-' "${1:-1}"gb; fi; }

snipertyler · 2013-12-13 05:22:02 9
Do stuff on disk more quickly

If you use eatmydata, all fsyncs will be ignored, so things will go much faster. Maybe not quite as fast as a ramdisk, but if you have enough free memory, the fs cache should help a lot. Just remember to sync afterwards--and if your system crashes in the middle of the command... :)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

eatmydata disk_thrashing_command

alphapapa · 2012-03-04 00:51:12 4

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