on 11/5/13, 11:58 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 06:43 -0500, Lonny Pursell wrote: > >> What MiKRO said is correct. If I boot mint, do show info the built in ram >> disk is quite literally the size of free memory. Something is not working >> right at the firebee if you boot up and it reports zero. > > Are you sure? Because u:\ram is not a drive, but a directory, so you > can't just "Dfree()" it to find the amount of free space. And I guess > that a TOS-program will use Dfree for this purpose. "df" use MiNTlib > which might use some magic to find the free space in the ramdisk. > > Matthias, try creating a "virtual" drive for the ramdisk. Put... > > alias k: u:\ram > > ...somewhere in your mint.cnf file. This will link the ramdisk to the > new drive K (or whichever drive letter you choose). Atleast Teradesk > will report the correct amount of free space on this "drive" on my > Firebee with a fairly recent MiNT kernel. See attached snapshot, it even works from GFA. Yes, I checked the source code of the library and interpreter, DFREE() in GFA is a direct call to dfree() and so some magic is going somewhere. :) -- Lonny Pursell http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/
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