* Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers The Grml Planet http://planet.grml.org/ Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/
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