From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 14:31:29 CEST
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:17:27PM +0200, jef knoors nicely wrote:
> Hello you all,
>
> I found a nice way to set up a temp directory without the mkfs.ext2 comand
> and its lib's.
> It saves you a lot of diskspace/or you can create /tmp before or without
> configuring USR.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1k count=300
> mkfs.ext2 tempfile
> gzip tempfile
>
[ snip ]
Only a problem: implemting /tmp in this way, we loss the opportunity
to configure the amount of RAM to be used.
Workaround: to prepare two compress empty ramdisk: tmp_low and tmp_high,
for low and high memory machine. This was 10K on the ROOT segment.
How we gain moving libext2 from ROOT to USR?
Michele
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