Issue with memory

[prashanthiyer]

When ever i do something like download or save youtube video , its not saving on my SD card at /dev/root rather on RAM.

I want it to save default on SDRAM which has 29 GB free. Please let me why ?

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 29G 2.8G 25G 11% /
devtmpfs 182M 0 182M 0% /dev
tmpfs 38M 280K 37M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 75M 0 75M 0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p5 60M 20M 40M 33% /boot
/dev/mmcblk0p3 27M 397K 25M 2% /media/SETTINGS

While free shows as below.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 371M 254M 117M 0B 13M 189M
-/+ buffers/cache: 50M 320M
Swap: 99M 0B 99M

[JMK8]

Whenever you 'download' anything it gets saved as a file - that's what 'download' means. If you want to play it, examine it, whatever after it is 'downloaded', it is then loaded into RAM, usually by an application (video player, editor, whatever...).

Playing a video inside a browser is different, that is not a 'download'.

[ghans]

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