On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:25:01AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > I'd like to download some big .iso files, and I use SSD drive. > Some would recommend avoid writing big stuff (in this case, about 40G!) to > SSD if possible. > I have other removable hard disk(s), and if I simply choose the target > directory to the removable hard disk, can I assure myself I am not writing > download data (including the cache/buff* stuff) to my SSD?
If you need reassurance, have a look at the output of "lsof -c mydownloader" (where mydownloader is the program you're using to download; wget, firefox, chromium etc). Look for files with a 'u' or 'w' after the FD number to find files being Updated or Written.
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