Hi John, What is your need for a RAM disk? With the advent of solid state drives (SSD) access to files is much faster, so there is less need for RAM disk. Also, I believe linux will cache disk files in RAM. I recall hearing linux behaves better with a swap file, even if it is used very little. cheers, Joel John J. Boyer wrote: > I've more or less decided to replacer my ten-year-old Linux machine. It > is giving error messages intermittently. Most of them are about sector > errors, but others seem to have nothing to do with the hard drive. It > may be more and more troublesome, even if the hard drive is replaced. > Besides, it would be nice to get more up-to-date hardware. > > I'm thinking of getting 32 GB of ram. 8 GB will be for normal use. The > other 24 GB will be in a ramdisk. Do I need a paging file? 8 GB of > available ram should be more than enough. The paging file on my present > machine always shows 0 usage, even with only 4 GB of ram. How do I avoid > setting up a paging file during installation? I'm using Debian Jessie. > > How do i set up the ramdisk? I want to assign the temp directory to it. > It might be nice if the bin, sbin and usr directories were loaded onto > it at boot-up. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list