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- Subject: Re: Turning off RAM disk?????
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- From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 09:28:07 -0600
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- In article <01050023.n0mdv1@chinchilla.cars.com>, niel@cars.com (Niel
- Bornstein) wrote:
- >
- > OK, I tried a RAM disk and I don't like it. I want to turn it off.
- > The memory cotrol panel tells me I can't turn it off if there are
- > files on it. Fine, I delete the files. Still can't turn it off.
- > OK, I delete the invisible files. Still can't turn it off. Well,
- > maybe I need to empty the trash. I can't empty the trash, because
- > the invisible files I just trashed are still in use. OK, maybe if
- > I reboot, it will let me turn it off, since there's no files on it.
- > No, sorry, on reboot, the desktop files are rebuilt so there are files
- > on the RAM disk which I can't delete to turn off the RAM disk since
- > they are in use and can't be deleted!
- >
- > How the hell do I remove the RAM disk?
- >
- Try a restart, while holding the Shift key down, this might just disable
- the memory Cdev and not mount the RAM disk. But I really don't know.
-
- - Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
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