Re: faster boots?

Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-08T18:59:42Z

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David Lang wrote:

> watch out for the write cycle limits of your flash. they're pretty low
> power (at least compared to anything mechanical) but if you're not careful
> you can go through their write capability pretty fast.
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> David Lang
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Upon boot, you can mount a ram-disk off from /tmp. That will reduce
the activity when using the usual editors, vi, vim, emacs, and pico,
which all create temp files on /tmp.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

Windows-2000/Professional isn't.