Re: Order not received
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:53:10AM -0700, Steve Pirk wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Given wrote:
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>> Steve Pirk wrote:
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>>> Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only,
>>> I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is
>>> up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is
>>> also acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be
>>> faster than the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future.
>>
>> Hmm --- that's interesting; maybe it's just me! Did you not need the
>> mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial to make apt-get work, then?
>>
>
> I put this comamnd into the end of rc.local so it gets created at boot
> time :-) Next fstab tweak will be to mount /var/cache/apt on a real disk
> instead of tmpfs. Looks like tmpfs gets deleted like /tmp used to on old
> Solaris systems. A hold over from the old unix systems that did not have
> a lot of disk space maybe?
A tmpfs is an in-memory filesystem -- it's contents are never persisted to
disk (except as swap) and, as with the rest of memory, disappear at reboot.
- Matt
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