Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:56:56 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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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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