Sunday, August 19, 2007

Don't keep your documents on the ramdisk!

I know I still need to explain how I got linux running on my laptop, but since I just lost several days' worth of work I thought I would throw out a warning!

DO NOT KEEP YOUR FILES ON A RAMDISK!!

I've been running DSL booted into ram, and it presents you with a nice cosy Home folder, just like I'm used to from Mac OSX. However, if for any reason the machine freezes, you'll loose everything. I guess this is fairly obvious, but it hadn't occurred to me until too late ;-) So, keep your files on a physical drive..

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