11.10 LiveCD

[Koh Choon Lin]

Hi

> I use the LiveCD almost exclusively for my work. Before 11.10 (ie.
> 11.04 and prior versions), I could use the live system with a 4GB
> swapfile on an external drive. The PC has only 1 GiB of RAM. Thus, I
> could install 1-2 GiB of software and have browser cache of 1 GiB
> without running out of space for each session. On 11.10, it seems
> software, cache, temp files, etc.. are not allocated into this
> swapfile and instead into RAM _only_. The system would run into "Out
> of space" errors once I installed a few software.
>
> Anyone knows how to shift the used memory back to swap?

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow     overlayfs    496M  261M  236M  53% /
udev      devtmpfs    489M  4.0K  489M   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs    199M  772K  198M   1% /run
/dev/sdb1     vfat    3.8G  695M  3.1G  19% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 squashfs    668M  668M     0 100% /rofs
tmpfs        tmpfs    496M  8.0K  496M   1% /tmp
none         tmpfs    5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
none         tmpfs    496M  200K  496M   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1  fuseblk     75G   19G   56G  25% /media/0A3C014A3C01326D

On further experimenting, I found that its the /cow on overlayfs thats
not moving into swap when its full. Anyone got any idea?



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Regards
Koh Choon Lin