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Hello, I'd like to use my RAM as a space to read and write temporary text files very quickly. My searches led me to ramfs. I tried to create a ...
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  1. 06-05-2006 #1
    calande
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    Mounting ramfs

    Hello, I'd like to use my RAM as a space to read and write temporary text files very quickly. My searches led me to ramfs. I tried to create a virtual file system, but it didn't work:

    mkd
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  2. 01-17-2007 #2
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    I think you want tmpfs, e.g.

    mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/tmp

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