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   Hello Maurice!   
      
    >> I'm reading that creating a ramdisk in linux is fairly simple and a   
    >> common feature.   
      
    MK> # mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g none /dev/lfs   
      
    MK> creates a 8G ramdisk mounted on /dev/lfs.   
      
    MK> # umount -v /dev/lfs   
      
    MK> wipes it out.   
      
   Yep..  pretty easy, just as I thought.  I have a friend who uses ramdisk a     
   lot, primarily for various "processing" purposes, and even uses Standby for     
   the pc when he needs to travel of end for the day.   
      
   The problem in his case though, his laptop batt might be a bit on the low     
   side, and when he tries to come out of standby everything he was in the     
   middle of "processing" would be gone when the machine would need a full     
   restart.   
      
      
    MK> What version of busybox do you have?  That looks to be your salvation.   
      
   H:\temp>busybox --help   
   BusyBox v1.37.0-FRP-5398-g89ae34445 (2024-06-25 08:38:11 BST)   
   (mingw32-gcc 14.1.1-3.fc40; mingw32-crt 11.0.1-3.fc40; glob)   
      
   H:/temp $ help   
   Built-in commands:   
   ------------------   
           . : [ [[ alias break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec   
           exit export false getopts hash help history jobs kill let local   
           printf pwd read readonly return set shift source test times title   
           trap true type ulimit umask unalias unset wait [ [[ ar arch ascii   
           ash awk base32 base64 basename bash bc bunzip2 busybox bzcat   
           bzip2 cal cat cdrop chattr chmod cksum clear cmp comm cp cpio   
           crc32 cut date dc dd df diff dirname dos2unix dpkg dpkg-deb drop   
           du echo ed egrep env expand expr factor false fgrep find fold   
           free fsync ftpget ftpput getopt grep groups gunzip gzip hd head   
           hexdump httpd iconv id inotifyd install ipcalc jn kill killall   
           lash less link ln logname ls lsattr lzcat lzma lzop lzopcat make   
           man md5sum mkdir mktemp mv nc nl nproc od paste patch pdpmake   
           pdrop pgrep pidof pipe_progress pkill printenv printf ps pwd   
           readlink realpath reset rev rm rmdir rpm rpm2cpio sed seq sh   
           sha1sum sha256sum sha3sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split   
           ssl_client stat strings su sum sync tac tail tar tee test time   
           timeout touch tr true truncate ts tsort ttysize uname uncompress   
           unexpand uniq unix2dos unlink unlzma unlzop unxz unzip uptime   
           usleep uudecode uuencode vi watch wc wget which whoami whois   
           xargs xxd xz xzcat yes zcat   
   H:/temp $   
      
   So.. no tmpfs.   
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