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Limiting writes on SSD, wine, tmp and burning ISOs with ImgBurn
I currently have a SSD + HDD partition layout so that /var and /tmp are located on the HDD to limit writes on the SSD.
Before buying an SSD, I used to burn dual layer DVD isos with ImgBurn through ...
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In a “Save as … ” dialog, what's the quickest way to keyboard-navigate to “tmp” and to indiv. bookmarks in the “Places” side-pane of Nautilus?
Building on my earlier question, where the accepted answer used keyboard accelerators for some elements of the dialog,
I'm still trying to find the accelerator (and/or quickest way) to select ...
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how to increase speed of usb install
I've installed (not live - but full installation) Ubuntu on a 16 Gb usb stick. I also installed onto a usb hdd. The boot speed and general operation is SIGNIFICANTLY faster on the usb hdd. This defies ...
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Lost a saved gedit file
I saved a text file in gedit last night before shutting off my computer, and I remember what I named the file. When I turned on my computer this morning to load the file, I could not find it. I've ...
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“long” time booting because “/tmp is not ready or present” [duplicate]
I say "long" because it's 30 seconds or a minute.
After that time, the computer starts normally, but I don't know how to improve the boot time.
I tried what people say here /tmp is not ready or ...
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Having access to buffered videos in ram [closed]
I read that you-tube buffered videos are the in RAM while playing them and you need not download them again. just copy the flash file to another location. However,when I copied it to the home ...
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Increase /tmp folder space using external drive
Using Ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin, 32 bit on 6GB partition
I don't have much space left on my HDD, so I installed ubuntu on a partition of just 6GB. Everything was working fine. I decided to have a ...
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Terminal command to clean tmp folder and set permission flags
Because of a low-graphics error I am not able to log into my system anymore. Well .. I am not seeing any graphical interface (solutions here How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics ...
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Assign more tmp space for Libre Office
I encountered the error "Resource exhausted. No more space on device." while saving a huge spreadsheet (Libre Office Calc 3.5). Is there a relation to the tmp space assigned for operations in Libre ...
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kazam crashing - /tmp issue? [closed]
My kazam keeps crashing if I leave it recording for a LONG time. I like to do this as I am working so that I can make tutorials later, or try to redo something that I have done before.
I am able to ...
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Booting stops at disk checking
I am constantly face this problem. When i start my laptop it checks the disk for errors , after that it shows , " some defects are found " when i press 'F' to Fix errors , it shows /tmp is not ready ...
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How to convert /tmp partition in to other format ? also give some details about /tmp partition?
I'm new to Ubuntu so don't know much about partitions. I have a 320Gb Hard-drive on a HP DV6 i3 2150us.
When I was installing Ubuntu I gave 100 Gb to /tmp mount point thinking that it would be a ...
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/tmp shows 690 Mb full, actual size 72 K, Why?
Why is /tmp diretory on my system showing 690 Mb full, whereas du -sh /tmp shows only 72K full.
drwxrwxrwt 2 lightdm lightdm 4096 Aug 29 21:49 at-spi2
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:50 ...
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Accidentally deleted tmp folder
i was trying to run
sudo rm -r ./tmp
but instead typed
sudo rm -r /tmp
Will it be fixed by running?
sudo mkdir /tmp
if i do what permissions should i give it?
ps: i didnt log out of my ...
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How can I use RAM storage for the /tmp directory and how to set a maximum amount of RAM usage for it?
After seeing the comment by Anonymous on this question: How is the /tmp directory cleaned up? I found it a great idea to implement on my system, since I have 16GB of RAM and I never used all of it.
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How to download streaming video from a flash player (arte)?
there are a couple of concerts that I would very much like to view from Arte (I think it's a french TV channel?) but my connection is not good enough to stream the video. How can I download the file ...
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Where should I save temporary files of the app I am developing?
I am developing an app for the Ubuntu App Showdown 2012, say "myapp". It needs to download files from the web, store them temporarily and then read them. Where should I save those files ? Now I do it ...
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How do I encrypt my /tmp directory?
After reading this question about how often tmp is cleared, it would be best for our setup if tmp is encrypted. How do I encrypt it?
My fstab looks like this:
proc /proc proc ...
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How to decompress 20GB of files; tmpfs keeps filling up
I need to decompress huge files when I upload them into a software and it is failing. I thought the problem was with tmpfs. Then I decided to use /tmp as tmpfs, but still failing. I can upload files ...
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What is the need for /boot and /tmp partitions in ubuntu
What is the reason of /boot and /tmp partitions in Ubuntu ?
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Clean up files after a process dies
I have an application that does a lot of forking, and every fork uses quite a lot of temp disk space. Currently, all of this space is used in /tmp. For various reasons, I want to clean up these tmp ...
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The disk drive for /tmp is not ready yet or not present [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
I found some entries with the same error message (see above) but none really applies to my problem.
I'm running a stable version ...
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Cannot find a safe socket path in '/tmp'
A while ago I accidentally ran chmod 777 /, and stopped it as soon as I realized what I had done. Unfortunately, it must have gotten to my /tmp directory, because whenever I start to run Firefox now, ...
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/tmp is not ready or not present [closed]
today i found out that Mint with LXDE had fall.
it said that
"/tmp is not ready or not present".
how to improve it?
additional question:
how to transfer /home on separate tome?
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How to make Downloads folder behave like a temp directory
In order to reduce disk space usage, I want to automate a temporary clean in my Downloads folder. I figured two ways to do so:
1) Changing the configurations of firefox, etc. to save files to /tmp/ ...
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Why doesn't /tmp use tmpfs?
I have loads of RAM and I use very little. I also do record some screencasts with gtk-recordmydesktop, which by default saves to /tmp while recording. I assumed that it would mean storing to RAM as ...
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Why is there 8GB worth of files in my /tmp?
I just got a notification saying I have a small amount of disk space left:
so I opened baobab to investigate and noticed this:
It turns out that my /tmp folder is full of files names like ...
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Can I safely remove all the files in /tmp?
I want to make free space on my computer, and Baobab tells me /tmp is 8 Gio large.
Can I delete all the files in /tmp safely? Do I have to close some programs first?
Additionally, why is this ...
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How to move my Trash into /tmp or automatically empty trash on reboot?
I rarely use Trash. (I use Shift+Delete) But recently, I found I often remove some important files by mistake. So I want to use Trash now.
But as we all know, my limited disk space will be filled ...
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Where are Firefox Flash temporary files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I access Flash files from streaming websites?
When playing Flash multimedia on Firefox eg. a Youtube video, the files used to be stored in /tmp/ , but they do ...
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Disk errors when booting, system doesn't run properly after disk check
I'm using 11.04 on Dell Vostro 1000 laptop. For some time it was ok, but now Ubuntu usually fails to boot.
After selecting Ubuntu in grub, I usually see purple (plain, without logo) or black screen ...
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How is the /tmp directory cleaned up?
How is the /tmp directory cleaned up? Is it automatic? If so, how frequently is it cleaned up?
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Good filesystem for /tmp?
I'm thinking of having /tmp on its own partition... what would be a good filesystem to format it with?
The reason I ask is because the data being stored in /tmp is not permanent, so I don't need ...
