[Novalug] Protecting an SSD
Ed James
edward.james@gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 07:16:56 EST 2012
Assembled Wisdom,
My daily-driver PC uses only a flashdrive as a HD. I'm looking at
ways to reduce read/writes to it, hoping that keeps it alive a bit
longer. It's not a critical device - this has been more of an
experiment than anything else, but still...
I do a lot of compiles to create (temp) .o files and rebuild static
and/or dynamic libs when I'm on a coding binge. So, for the .o files,
I create a ram disk in the current dir:
mkfs -q /dev/ram1 10240 #NOTE: 10 MB is way more than I need
mkdir -p RamDisk
mount /dev/ram1 RamDisk
When I'm done with it, I remove it with:
umount RamDisk
rmdir RamDisk
Question: are there other situations where this trick could be applied?
adTHANKSvance,
Ed James
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