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| › diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAM Disk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://4194304` # Create a 2GB ramdisk | |
| › rsync -avr Code/ /Volumes/RAM\ Disk/ # Copy your work over | |
| › open /Volumes/RAM\ Disk/ # Open in Finder | |
| # Change ram://XXXX to MB required x 2048 (4194304 = 2048 x 2048) | |
| # 1GB = 2097152 | |
| # 2GB = 4194304 | |
| # 3GB = 6291456 | |
| # 4GB = 8388608 | |
| # 8GB = 16777216 |
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