/home/bill/PROJECTS/System_maintenance/drives - disk & USB memory/ramdisk notes.txt
www.BillHowell.ca  30Jul2020







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30Jul2020  video recording limits
roughly 6 Gb/1 hr of recording - this would require much more than current ramdisk (2 Gb)

from "/home/bill/.bashrc", Suse example : 
# for Suse  
# (04Jan2020 run only export line : I didn't need to set up the ramdisk, it was there from cold boot) :   
# 04Mar2020 >>properly mount ramdisk or scripts won't work if they use ramdisk 
#		$ sudo mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
#		$ sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=5120m ramdisk /mnt/ramdisk
#		$ sudo df -h
#		$ export  d_home="/home/bill/"  ;  d_meda="/run/media/bill/" ;  export  d_temp="/mnt/ramdisk/"  ;  export d_travel="$d_meda""SAMSUNG_G4/"  ;  export d_SWAPPER="$d_home""SWAPPER/"  ;  export d_HOWELL_BASE="$d_home""HOWELL_BASE/"  ;  
#	

Use SWAPPER USB drive

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