#DATARAM RAMDISK CAN'T SAVE SETTINGS INI FILE INSTALL#
If I understand you correctly, and without ignoring the warning, it sounds like you are saying it IS possible to install a program outside of the default location.Ĭan you (or anyone else) tell me how that is done? It would be nice to see what else might be slamming our SSD's unnecessarily - Is there a similar way to monitor disk writes in Linux Mint?ĮDIT: I would not recommend to have Firefox installed outside the system default location since this would break auto-updates of Firefox. which may require IT to be on the non-SSD partition as well.
but I believe that would require running "Wine". One of my ideas was to possibly have the browser run as a "Portable App" off a non-SSD partition (See: ). Is there a way in Linux Mint to install these programs (or more importantly, have the cache & the programs "user profile file") reside on a non-SSD partition? I am about to do a clean install of Mint 18.1 onto a new SSD and I'd like to minimize the unnecessary wear on the drive from the start. IMO this is way too much for doing nothing at all. to-fix-it/ ) is, with just a couple of tabs open and not doing anything at all, firefox is STILL writing about 200Mb/hour to the disk! What I've noticed (using the PC monitoring method suggested here. This feature is neat, but causes many disk writes. Now you've disabled the session restore feature, which remembers what pages were opened if Firefox experiences an unxpected shutdown (read: crashes). _on_demandĬlose Firefox and launch it again. Now disable the following three other sessionstore items, by simply double-clicking them (so that "true" becomes "false"):
Add three zeros to the existing value, so that it becomes: 15000000 and click the OK button. The default interval is 15000, which means 15 seconds. Click the button to accept the risk.ĭouble-click on the item called. Type about:config in the url bar and press Enter. Section "Cached Web Content": tick Override automatic cache management and set the cache to 0 MB.ī. You can limit the write actions of Firefox as follows.įirefox menu button (with the three dashes on it) - Preferences - Advanced