Re: faster boots?

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 13:56:56 EST


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Lang wrote:

> watch out for the write cycle limits of your flash. they're pretty low
> power (at least compared to anything mechanical) but if you're not careful
> you can go through their write capability pretty fast.
>
> David Lang
>
>
>

Upon boot, you can mount a ram-disk off from /tmp. That will reduce
the activity when using the usual editors, vi, vim, emacs, and pico,
which all create temp files on /tmp.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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