Creating a ramdisk

[The Wolf]

Rick Rosinski wrote:

> Hello, everybody.
>
> I am running Seti@home and it works great.  I have find out, however, that it
> does alot reading from the hard drive.  I want to take the extra stress off of
> the hard drive, and put everything about seti@home into a RAM disk.  I have no
> idea on how to create a ram disk.  I want to create a ram disk, mount it as a
> directory and treat it like any other directory in the file system.  Can
> somebody help me out?
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
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> Rick Rosinski
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I do not think this will work.
Seti downloads the data to be processed
to your hard drive.  And then it processes
it.  So if you remove your drive and
use ramdisk this probably will not work.