| damian | Anyone know where I can get the command "mdconfig"? It is common on FreeBSD, but I can't seem to find a package that provides it. | 02:00 |
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| damian | actually, I might be able to find it in synaptic | 02:01 |
| damian | ok, I tried a search for md in synaptic, mdadm seemed like it might be right, but I kinda doubt it. | 02:04 |
| damian | mdadm wasn't helpful, anyone got ideas for me? | 02:06 |
| damian | I would like to avoid compiling anything because the only thing I've compiled was LAMP under my dads guidance, everything else I've tried has thrown errors. | 02:07 |
| damian | I'll see if #linuxhelp can tell me anything | 02:18 |
| tonyyarusso | damian: what does it *do*? | 03:21 |
| damian | Creates a memdisk (similar to mounting a folder as tmpfs) and lets you manipulate it as if it were a real device (like a harddrive) | 03:22 |
| tonyyarusso | Okay, something like that is obviously at the kernel level, so BSD utilities aren't going to work on Linux. | 03:23 |
| damian | I found a bit of help in #linuxhelp, I made a 300MiB file using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.disk bs=300M count=1" where /tmp is mounted as tmpfs | 03:23 |
| damian | then did "losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/test.disk" | 03:23 |
| damian | giving me something very similar to what I wanted | 03:23 |
| tonyyarusso | There are plenty of ramdisk tutorials for Linux via google. | 03:24 |
| damian | but it doesn't appear to work with gparted | 03:24 |
| damian | I got the idea to use mdconfig from my dad, so I didn't really think about other options right off :/ | 03:24 |
| tonyyarusso | Yeah, gparted isn't going to do this. You'll need to work on the command line. | 03:25 |
| damian | Actually Disk Utility shows it, is able to format it, and mount it | 03:29 |
| damian | I formatted it as a FAT16 partition named "potato" | 03:30 |
| damian | I got disconnected from our home network for some reason, I'm on my phone now | 03:50 |
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