[Grml] Writing to Hard Drives from LiveCD
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Tue Nov 14 13:15:13 CET 2006
* Juergen Fiedler <juergen.fiedler at gmail.com> [20061109 18:15]:
> 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
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512
> with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting
> the file frees up that RAM.
> After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM
> anymore.
> 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?
JFTR:
Well, as written on IRC caching is a good thing. ;)
AFAIK your problems seems to be solved, if not please let us know.
regards,
-mika-
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