How do i turn off the Ramdisk?

[BananaBro69]

Hi BananaBro69

... Is it supposed to do that? ...

Yes, that looks normal.

What does this command return:

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busybox fdisk -l

it returns this:

[Rich]

Hi BananaBro69
I see nothing wrong here. The size of your device is 8 GB and
it's partitioned as an 8 GB device.

According to the image in your reply #8, Your device has 172.4 MB
of data on it and 7.7 GB are free.

... if i make a partition 8 GB, Because of the Ramdisk i can only use 3-4 GB. ...

What makes you think you can only use 3-4 GB of sda1?

[BananaBro69]

Hi BananaBro69
I see nothing wrong here. The size of your device is 8 GB and
it's partitioned as an 8 GB device.

According to the image in your reply #8, Your device has 172.4 MB
of data on it and 7.7 GB are free.

... if i make a partition 8 GB, Because of the Ramdisk i can only use 3-4 GB. ...

What makes you think you can only use 3-4 GB of sda1?

Well, i didn’t say it could only use 3-4 Gigabytes of sda1. i said that if core.gz was too big to uncompress into ram, i wouldn’t be able to use more than my RAM has. i could make /home and /opt persistent to lower the RAM usage, but if the files not on /home or /opt get too big, they won’t be able to fit on the RAM filesystem. But if i find out how to also make all big folders persistent, that will fix the problem. that’s why i made this topic. So i could find out how to make all
(if not, most) of the Filesystem persistent, instead of temporary.

[Rich]

Hi BananaBro69

... i said that if core.gz was too big to uncompress into ram, i wouldn’t be able to use more than my RAM has. ...

Actually, this is the only post in this thread that mentions core.gz.

These are the core.gz files for TC10 and TC17 32 bit:

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core.gz                                            11-Jun-2019 09:46             9131528
core.gz                                            16-Jul-2026 12:32            14122569Over 7 years, it has grown from 9 Meg to 14 Meg. At that rate of growth, we'll
all be long dead before it even comes close to filling up your RAM.

This is from my TC10 32 bit PC with 3 GB RAM, 339 loop
mounted extensions installed, and persistent /home and /opt:

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tc@E310:~$ free -mo
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3028       1717       1311          0          0        419
Swap:          999         30        969Of the 1717 MB of RAM used, Firefox and Thunderbird running are
responsible for about 1500 MB. The other 200 MB are occupied by
the kernel. drivers, background processes, 6 terminals, 4 copies
of editor, and 1 copy of genie with 6 files open, and probably a
few other items I've missed.

Here is part of /usr/local/bin/ :

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tc@E310:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | head -n 10
total 772
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      34 Aug 23 07:14 7z -> /tmp/tcloop/p7zip/usr/local/bin/7z
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      40 Aug 23 07:14 7za -> /tmp/tcloop/p7zip-full/usr/local/bin/7za
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      40 Aug 23 07:14 7zr -> /tmp/tcloop/p7zip-full/usr/local/bin/7zr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      47 Aug 23 07:14 AutoCursor -> /tmp/tcloop/AutoCursor/usr/local/bin/AutoCursor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      49 Aug 23 07:14 FoxitReader -> /tmp/tcloop/FoxitReader/usr/local/bin/FoxitReader
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 Aug 23 07:14 X -> /tmp/tcloop/xorg-server/usr/local/bin/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      41 Aug 23 07:14 Xdialog -> /tmp/tcloop/Xdialog/usr/local/bin/Xdialog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      43 Aug 23 07:14 Xnest -> /tmp/tcloop/xorg-server/usr/local/bin/Xnest
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      42 Aug 23 07:14 Xorg -> /tmp/tcloop/xorg-server/usr/local/bin/XorgAs you can see, since these files are loop mounted, they only occupy
between 34 and 49 bytes each.

This is how Tinycore is designed to run. If you feel you need
a persistent based install, You might be better off installing
a system designed to run that way.