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ccchris

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Registered: 2006-09-25

Posts: 16

mount /var as a ramdisk?

Hi, I'm going to install arch onto a compact flash card. To minimize writes to the card am I going to link /tmp to /var/tmp and create a ramdisk at boot for /var to be mounted in.

Do I have to recreate the /var file system in the boot process somehow or will this be created automatically?

Is there anything else I should think about?

Thanks!

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: mount /var as a ramdisk?

Unless I'm mistaken, this won't work.  /var needs some permanent storage medium - things like the pacman database and all logfiles are stored there, for example.

slubman

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From: Grenoble (France)

Registered: 2004-08-04

Posts: 86

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Re: mount /var as a ramdisk?

Concerning pacman, looking at the manpage ,it's seems possible to chose where is stored the database:

CONFIG: OPTIONS
       DBPath = path/to/db/dir
              Overrides  the  default location of the toplevel database direc-
              tory.  The default is var/lib/pacman.

. But ialso thinks it will be hard to put the entire /var into a ramdisk.

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