Firefox & tmpfs

Gilles Gravier ggravier at fsfe.org
Tue Jan 11 07:01:15 UTC 2011


Hi!

On 11/01/2011 07:35, Sandy Harris wrote:
> I have a machine with lots of RAM, 8 gigs in a single-user
> desktop machine that runs Open Office, Firefox, and not
> much else. /tmp is already on tmpfs.
>
> I'd like to put the Firefox cache on tmpfs as well. How?
> Edit a Firefox config file to put the cache into /tmp?
> Symlink the existing cache directory to one in /tmp?
> Start another instance of tmpfs for this?

Symlink is the way I would do it.

Gilles.

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