[Forwarding the mail for Michael Schierl, as gmx was on the blacklist too, http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=mail.gmx.net ]
* Wernfried Haas amne@gentoo.org [20061114 11:15]:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:51:51PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
I'm running out of coffee, but are you searching for http://grml.org/faq/#remove_cd ?
In case you have enough RAM, running "grml toram" should probably help too i guess? Never used it myself but it should also take care of the problems arising when you need to access some file from the cdrom/pen drive as it's not needed.
,---- [ fwd from Michael Schierl's mail ] | "grml toram" only helps if I think about it first, not when the job is | already running and the hard disk is slower than you expected. And there | are still too many PCs with only 256MB or even 128MB RAM around :) | | Unfortunately, doing "grml toram" while the system is working does not | work. Even if you copy the image file to tmpfs and add it to the union, | you cannot unmount the original image file since open file references | will not "jump" to the new location. [I already asked this on the | unionfs list, but got no hints how to do it, so I think this is | impossible :( ]. And losetup cannot "move" a loop-mounted file (while | mounted) either. And I don't know any other way how to archieve this. | | But umount -l is a good idea, thanks :) | | Michael `----
regards, -mika-