its loading everything into a virtual drive in ram and running from that location
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Idk how i completely blanked on RAM when posting this lol. I spent so much time fucking with my drives and booting I just completely spaced out on RAM when I was staring at the progress bar moving a pixel per hour lol thanks.
Wouldn’t it be simpler than that and just be that the application is running from RAM?
Though I suppose if we’re talking about Linux you could move root to a disk in RAM.
My questions is because im not deleting the disk im actually wiping the disk, where is it storing the code for the wipe disk operation to run from?
Without knowing anything about any of the software you're asking about, I can still say that RAM would be a very good guess, anything that was read from disk would normally store itself in RAM before modifying the disk it was read from.
Riiiiiiight. Way to make me feel instant embarrassment for how stupid I feel now🤣
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