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Temporary place

Post#1 by tome » 13 Sep 2015, 14:54

What is the best place for temporary files? I don't want to store anything on hard-drive, but in RAM. So after reboot everything should be lost even if I use changes= cheatcode. /mnt/live/memory/tmp? /run?
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Re: Temporary place

Post#2 by bour59 » 13 Sep 2015, 15:38

I use this
mount ramdisk /mnt/ramd -t tmpfs -o size=xxxM
xxx is the desired size in Mb
datas available in /mnt/ramd

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Post#3 by Ed_P » 13 Sep 2015, 22:00

tome wrote:What is the best place for temporary files? I don't want to store anything on hard-drive, but in RAM. So after reboot everything should be lost even if I use changes= cheatcode.
/tmp works. I use the changes= cheatcode and everything there is gone on next boot.
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Post#4 by Bogomips » 13 Sep 2015, 22:07

^ /tmp/usm as well?
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Re: Temporary place

Post#5 by Ed_P » 13 Sep 2015, 22:52

Yes. /tmp/usm as well.
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Re: Temporary place

Post#6 by tome » 14 Sep 2015, 18:24

@Ed_P
Everything is gone after reboot because you use changes=EXIT: cheatcode (see /etc/changes-exit.conf), but it is saved for plain changes= cheatcode.

bour59 solution is fine, without defined size (mount ramdisk /mnt/ramd -t tmpfs) it is probably the same as it would be /run/newdirectory or /mnt/live/memory/new/directory.
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Re: Temporary place

Post#7 by Ed_P » 15 Sep 2015, 03:38

tome wrote:@Ed_P
Everything is gone after reboot because you use changes=EXIT: cheatcode (see /etc/changes-exit.conf), but it is saved for plain changes= cheatcode.
:shock: Sorry tome. :oops: I thought the only difference between the two cheatcodes was timing. :(
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