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Use a RAM disk to hold a user
Authored by: josephaw on Sep 10, '04 06:07:10PM

Hey, I was playing with the ram disk and it worked fine.
Then I said, hey, let me create a user and put it's home directory on the RamDrive. It worked!
Maybe someone can use this procedure to create a faster startup OSX cd using Boot CD. Maybe create a file vault user and dd copy it from the cd to the ram disk and then log into that.
My second trial was to move that user from the temporary ramdisk to my flash memory drive. It worked again. Sort of like home on an iPod, but using my 256MB flash drive. I moved my bookmarks to it for mozilla.
This is nice, when these drive hold GB's of space, I'll put my whole user on it and take it from home to work. And as soon as apple activate home on the iPod, maybe this will work automatically too.
Keep up the great site.
Joe Ward
P.S. One thing I just notice, little no no disk activity, it's quiet.



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