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Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

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61 points hiAndrewQuinn | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 1.369s | source
1. amai ◴[27 Jun 25 11:10 UTC] No.44395807[source]▶
Back to the 90s, when Amiga OS had a dynamically sized RAM disk by default and showed an icon for it in the GUI like for any other device. It even offered a persistant RAM drive.

https://grimore.org/amiga/rad

It seems the advantage of this has been mostly forgotten.