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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!
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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.
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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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