no more hslv format ?

[Jim web]

In article <20180502152015.50EA621CC3 at orac.inputplus.co.uk>, Ralph
Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > The challenge for me is to work out how to get the fetched file to go
> > onto the tmpfs

> Well, `df -t tmpfs' will probably show /tmp is a tmpfs so you could
> `--output /tmp' and you should see its intermediate files, and the final
> file, only appear there.  `--command' could then move that final file to
> the SSD, or run a conversion command that writes to the SSD and then
> removes the tmpfs input.

the df command listed various 'locations'. These included

tmpfs  815696  1352  814334  /run

none 4078460  0  4078460  /run/shm

none 102400  8  102392  /run/usr

Inside /run/usr I did find a directory for my user id and could use that as
the user. However I don't know what the /run/shm is for, so need to do some
finding out...

I did set up an explict ramdisc on another machine ages ago by adding a
line to the /etc/fstab file. But that fixed the size to 256 MB, which in
this context is tiny. System monitor says I have 8GB of ram.

Jim

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