Ramdisk: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:56, 1 February 2024

On critical daq servers (clondaqx) directory /et have to reside in ramdisk. Create directory /et, and add following line in /etc/fstab:

 none  /et  tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=4096M   0 0

it will show up after reboot. To enable it without reboot, type mkdir /et and mount /et.

General info

Check available memory size:

free -g

Example of creating 4G ramdisk and mounting it as /mnt/ramdisk:

su
mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
mount -t tmpfs -o size=4g xfs /mnt/ramdisk

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-On critical daq servers (clondaqx) directory ''/et'' resides in ramdisk. Following have to be done during installation:
+On critical daq servers (clondaqx) directory ''/et'' have to reside in ramdisk. Create directory ''/et'', and add following line in ''/etc/fstab'':
-  su
+  none  /et  tmpfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=4096M   0 0
- mkdir /etc
-  mount -t tmpfs -o size=4g xfs /et
-To make it permanent, add following line in ''/etc/fstab'':
+it will show up after reboot. To enable it without reboot, type ''mkdir /et'' and ''mount /et''.
-  tmpfs   /etc   xfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=4096M   0 0
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   mkdir /mnt/ramdisk
   mount -t tmpfs -o size=4g xfs /mnt/ramdisk
-To make it permanent, add it to ''/etc/fstab'':
- tmpfs   /mnt/ramdisk   xfs   nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=4096M   0 0