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Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davistw1 Profile Has anyone experimented with putting the browser cache on a mounted share? Right now it's pointed at /tmp. If I could put it on a share it should free up some space on my Aud.... 04-25-2002 04:35:31

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) jhd3rd Profile I've had my voyager cache on a share for months and it works just fine. 04-25-2002 05:41:37

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davistw1 Profile Great... I was looking in /tmp and there are a lot of files in there... There is one directory /tmp/snd that is full of sound files consuming quite a bit of space? What are these? Is it possible to redirect the entire /tmp directory with a ln -s command? IE: ln -s /myshare/tmp /tmp Would this cause the /tmp directory to be redirected to the /myshare/tmp? 04-25-2002 07:56:10

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davinci27 Profile I don't believe /tmp is a fileSystem you are expecting. /tmp is a seperate filessystem that is completely rebuit on reboot. anything you put in /tmp will be deleted when you restart, and anything you delet will return. The filesystem you can actually work with is fsOp1 take a look at the df discussion http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=3Com_Audrey&Post=1385&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0 to see more. davinci27 04-25-2002 08:15:01

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davistw1 Profile I know /tmp is just a directory off the root of a memory based filesystem. Even so it still has to consume resources/memory on the filesystem. As those resources get consumed, whether or not it is cleared a startup or not, it still uses them while they are active. I don't reboot my audrey as a general practice so they keep building.. What I was hoping was that the /tmp directory was one that I could simply redirect to a filesystem that is not on the audrey but instead was on a share. That way the files that are being built on /tmp would be off of the audrey and thereby not consume these resources... I've done this many times before on my "Doz" box. I have my IE temp cache pointed to a separate drive from my system drive that way it doesn't consume drive space I have allocated for my sytem partition. Am I not looking at this correctly? I've been confused before..... 04-25-2002 08:41:58

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davinci27 Profile Your right, they do consume resources, but not resources you can use. /tmp isn't a directory, more a partition. If I have a 2 gig partition and a 5 gig partition no matter how much stuff I put into or take out of the 2 gig partitions, I still hav 5 gigs in the other partition. Changing the number of files int he /tmp directory doesn't actually change the amount of free space on your /. If you look back through the archives, someone tried to get the /tmp space back into the / but had little luck. They could free the space up, but couldn't find a way to add it to usable space. davinci27 04-25-2002 09:12:04

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) booya Profile tmp isn't just a directory off of root. It is a seperate filesystem that mounts itself at /tmp. Using df you will see that /dev/fs1p0 is /tmp # df /dev/fs1p0 8064 38 8025 1% /tmp /dev/fs1 8192 8192 0 100% /dev/fs0 512 512 0 100% /dev/fs0p2 /dev/fs0p1 30976 24693 6282 80% / /dev/fs0 1024 1024 0 100% /dev/fs0p0 /dev/fs0 32768 32768 0 100% Since the filesystem is rewritten at boot, I don't think you can doo much with the /tmp directory, but since it is a seperate filesystem other than / (root) you don't really need to worry about the files that are in it since it isn't taking up your usable space. The sound files are kept in another place off of root (maybe /kojak/snd) and copied to the /tmp/snd directory at boot. Maybe this /kojak/snd directory off of root could be mirrored and linked to on a share. I don't really remember where the snd directory is but i think it was in /kojak/snd, I deleted it and removed bleep from my Audrey. Get help, chat, and be merry.. Join #audrey on Efnet 04-25-2002 09:13:14

RE:Browser Cache (modified 0 times) davistw1 Profile OOOOOOHHHHHH... I understand now.... The Aud's engineers probably wanted to make sure that she always had enough space for temp files at boot or something like that so they created a partitioned off space just for that... Bummer... 04-25-2002 12:04:27

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