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Trying to make it work for user-folders, allow storing the files added to the ramdisk so I can use it for "~/Library/Caches/Google/".
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#!/bin/bash | |
# +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |
# | | | |
# | Set up Mac OS X to store temporary files in RAM rather than on disk.| | |
# | | | |
# | By Philipp Klaus <http://blog.philippklaus.de> | | |
# | | | |
# | Originally by Ricardo Gameiro <http://blogs.nullvision.com/?p=357> | | |
# | Changes by Daniel Jenkins | | |
# | <http://blogs.nullvision.com/?p=357#comment-1140> | | |
# | Changes by CW Shue | | |
# | <http://blog.cwshue.com/2012/11/moving-tmp-folder-to-ram-disk.html> | |
# | | | |
# +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | |
cd /Library | |
sudo mkdir RamFS | |
sudo chown -R root:wheel RamFS | |
sudo chmod -R u+rwX,g+rX,o+rX RamFS | |
cat << "EOF" | sudo tee RamFS/RamFS > /dev/null | |
#!/bin/sh | |
# Create a RAM disk with same perms as mountpoint | |
RAMDisk() { | |
mntpt=$1 | |
rdsize=$(($2*1024*1024/512)) | |
echo "Creating RamFS for $mntpt" | |
# Create the RAM disk. | |
dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=yes -nomount ram://$rdsize` | |
# Successfull creation... | |
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then | |
# Create HFS on the RAM volume. | |
newfs_hfs $dev | |
# Store permissions from old mount point. | |
eval `/usr/bin/stat -s $mntpt` | |
# Mount the RAM disk to the target mount point. | |
mount -t hfs -o union -o nobrowse $dev $mntpt | |
# Restore permissions like they were on old volume. | |
chown $st_uid:$st_gid $mntpt | |
chmod $st_mode $mntpt | |
# Rename the new disk to previous name | |
diskutil rename $mntpt `basename $mntpt` | |
fi | |
} | |
StoreRAMDisk() { | |
mntpt=$1 | |
tmpmntpt=/tmp/rd_mntpt | |
# retreive the device path eg: /dev/disk4 | |
dev=`mount|grep $mntpt|awk '{print $1 }'` | |
# unmount the disk from the dir, the previous files are left in the dir | |
umount -f $mntpt | |
# mount the dir to a temp dir | |
# Create.. | |
mkdir $tmpmntpt | |
# Mount | |
mount -t hfs -o nobrowse $dev $tmpmntpt | |
# Move all files to the original dir | |
mv $tmpmntpt/* $mntpt | |
# (rsync seems better, but doesn't works?) | |
# rsync -a --remove-source-files $tmpmntpt/ $mntpt | |
# Unmount and remove the tmp mount dir | |
umount $tmpmntpt | |
rm -rf $tmpmntpt | |
# Remove the RamDisk to free up memory | |
hdiutil detach $dev | |
} | |
# Test for arguments. | |
if [ -z $1 ]; then | |
echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart] " | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
# Source the common setup functions for startup scripts | |
test -r /etc/rc.common || exit 1 | |
. /etc/rc.common | |
StartService () { | |
ConsoleMessage "Starting RamFS disks..." | |
RAMDisk /private/tmp 256 | |
RAMDisk /var/run 64 | |
#RAMDisk /var/db 1024 | |
#mkdir -m 1777 /var/db/mds | |
# RAMDisk /Users/larrybolt/RamDisk 1024 # It doesn't works for a weird reason :( | |
} | |
StopService () { | |
ConsoleMessage "Stopping RamFS disks, nothing will be done here..." | |
# diskutil unmount /private/tmp /private/var/run | |
# diskutil unmount /private/var/run | |
# StoreRAMDisk /Users/larrybolt/RamDisk | |
} | |
RestartService () { | |
ConsoleMessage "Restarting RamFS disks, nothing will be done here..." | |
} | |
RunService "$1" | |
EOF | |
sudo chmod u+x,g+x,o+x RamFS/RamFS | |
cat << EOF | sudo tee LaunchDaemons/com.nullvision.RamFS.plist > /dev/null | |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-/Apple/DTD PLIST 1.0/EN" "http:/www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
<plist version="1.0"> | |
<dict> | |
<key>Label</key> | |
<string>com.nullvision.RamFS</string> | |
<key>ProgramArguments</key> | |
<array> | |
<string>/Library/RamFS/RamFS</string> | |
<string>start</string> | |
</array> | |
<key>KeepAlive</key> | |
<false/> | |
<key>RunAtLoad</key> | |
<true/> | |
<key>UserName</key> | |
<string>root</string> | |
<key>StandardErrorPath</key> | |
<string>/var/log/RamFS</string> | |
<key>StandardOutPath</key> | |
<string>/var/log/RamFS</string> | |
</dict> | |
</plist> | |
EOF |
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