[Grml] Writing to Hard Drives from LiveCD

[Michael Prokop]

* Juergen Fiedler <juergen.fiedler at gmail.com> [20061109 18:15]:

>  I have observed something odd: When I write data to a mounted hard drive
>  partition while running from the livecd, the amount of written data is
>  subtracted from the free RAM, i.e., if I do a

>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512

>  with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting
>  the file frees up that RAM.
>  After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM
>  anymore.

>  I think I may be missing something vitally important about how the unionfs
>  is set up. Can anybody please tell me how I can write files to an HD without
>  them taking up RAM, too?

JFTR:

Well, as written on IRC caching is a good thing. ;)
AFAIK your problems seems to be solved, if not please let us know.

regards,
-mika-
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