Re: tmps and swap

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From	Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org>
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Subject	Re: tmps and swap
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Hello,

Günther Schwarz a écrit :
> Any hints on how to prevent a tmpfs file system to be written to the swap 
> partition? Other than omitting a swap partition completely, of course. I 
> do not want some files to end up on the hard disk.

You can use ramfs instead of tmpfs. But the drawback is that you cannot
limit the size. See Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt

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tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 20:50 +0000
  Re: tmps and swap Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-02-07 16:15 -0500
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 23:01 +0000
      Re: tmps and swap Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2012-05-31 21:52 +0200
  Re: tmps and swap Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-07 22:40 +0000
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-07 23:01 +0000
      Re: tmps and swap "Stachu 'Dozzie' K." <dozzie@go.eat.some.screws.spammer.invalid> - 2012-02-08 09:18 +0000
        Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-09 21:51 +0000
  Re: tmps and swap Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2012-02-08 00:34 +0100
    Re: tmps and swap Günther Schwarz <strap@gmx.de> - 2012-02-09 21:51 +0000

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