RamDisk?

I'm trying to create a ramdisk for /tmp and to place browser cache into. But all the stuff I have tried seems to result in failed boot and a restore.

sudo mousepad /etc/fstab

#none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

removed the #, failed.

Also tried;

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

Any ideas, im semi new to linux, so please tell me Im missing something obvious.

 

/tmp already runs in a ram disk. It's initiated elsewhere, not in fstab.

Cheers.

 

Ok, thanks. Ill stop messing around

Safe to move Firefox cache to /tmp ?

 

Very limited space. I wouldn't do it.

Cheers.

 

Thanks alot for your help.

I had read that moving the cache to a ramdisk would help, I have 1GB of RAM is isn't used that much. Can I create another ram disk for this, or should I just give up on this?

 

I wouldn't use /tmp for a ramdisk on the AAO. I also tried it and boot failed. I use /var/tmp just fine, though. Put this in /etc/fstab:

Code:

tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

I wrote a script to put the entire firefox profile directory in to a ramdisk and rsync it back to disk every so often. I've been using it on several machines with no problems.

Run this:

Code:

sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/ramdisk-profile [url]http://wettstein.homelinux.org/eee/ramdisk-profile[/url]
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ramdisk-profile
sudo /usr/local/bin/ramdisk-profile &

You probably want to make the cache size smaller in the firefox preferences and turn off the safe browsing features (and delete the sqlite databases already created) before you start this script.

Once it is working add '/usr/local/bin/ramdisk-profile &' to /etc/rc.local. Don't forget the &!

1GB of RAM should be plenty to do this. I'm using it on a eee pc 4g with with 512MB RAM and it works fine, too.

Let's just say this makes firefox fast!

 

Thanks for help.