I have observed something odd: When I write data to a mounted hard drive partition while running from the livecd, the amount of written data is subtracted from the free RAM, i.e., if I do a <br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512 
<br><br>with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting the file frees up that RAM.<br>After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM anymore.<br><br>I think I may be missing something vitally important about how the unionfs is set up. Can anybody please tell me how I can write files to an HD without them taking up RAM, too?
<br><br>Any help would be much appreciated!<br>Cheers,<br>&nbsp;--j<br>