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vagrant ramdisk (Linux)
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cd /home/tim/VirtualBox\ VMs/
mv proxydev2_1351794515 tmp
mkdir proxydev2_1351794515
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G tmpfs /home/tim/VirtualBox\ VMs/proxydev2_1351794515
cp -a tmp/* proxydev2_1351794515/
# go back to vagrant directory and `vagrant up`
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jmcbee commented May 24, 2015

what's this for?

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put your virtual machine in a ramdisk, which should greatly speed up any vagrant operation like up halt, destroy...

and it should also wear your hdd out much less if you do a lot of up/destroy cycles.

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