Scratch space

Scratch space is space on the hard disk drive that is dedicated for storage of temporary user data, by analogy of "scratch paper." It is unreliable by intention and has no back up. ^[1]

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Table of Contents

1. 9 relations: Adobe Photoshop, Backup, Graphic design, Hard disk drive, Memory paging, Random-access memory, Scratch tape, Temporary folder, TMPDIR.

2. Computer files

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.

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Backup

In information technology, a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. Scratch space and hard disk drive are rotating disc computer storage media.

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Memory paging

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Scratch tape

In data processing, a scratch tape is a magnetic tape that is used for temporary storage and can be reused or erased after the completion of a job or processing run.

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Temporary folder

In computing, a temporary folder or temporary directory is a directory used to hold temporary files.

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TMPDIR

TMPDIR is the canonical environment variable in Unix and POSIX that should be used to specify a temporary directory for scratch space.

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See also

Computer files

• .wps
• ANIM
• Archive file
• BANG file
• Changelog
• Computer file
• Computer file formats
• Container format
• Data file
• Data set (IBM mainframe)
• End-of-file
• File hosting
• File managers
• File sharing
• File signature
• File size
• File verification
• Filename extension
• Filename mangling
• Filenames
• Filespec
• Fully qualified name
• Grid file
• IGC (file format)
• JHOVE
• MPEG
• Managed file transfer
• Proxy auto-config
• Scratch space
• Sparse file
• System file
• Text files
• Zero-byte file

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space

Also known as Scratch disk.

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