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

There are garbage dumps everywhere for those with eyes to see Given my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, so that virtually every Unix system already has it mounted as a tmpfs by default: 1 2 ❯ mount | grep '/dev/shm' tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs ( rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 ) Today’s lucky 10,000, indeed. It ge

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