You can have a database all in memory. . .  mounted over a network via NFS,
or sshfs, You can use an external USB hard drive / flash stick, or you can
use the sdcard interface as Robert mentions above.

Anyway, there are "tons" of options, and you simply gave up too easy. As
for Software stacks . . .MongoDB, postgresql, MySQL, and I'm sure at least
a couple more I can not think of off hand are all options.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Ray Madigan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > That was my original idea, I just can't figure out how to implement it.
> I
> > formatted it with fdisk as a linux partition, any ext was not available,
> and
> > when I boot /etc/mtab treats it as vFat and postgresql won't init a
> database
> > on it because it can't perform a link.
>
> Boot off emmc, once booted, insert microSD..
>
> Let's assume: /dev/mmcblk1 is microSD (lsblk) to check:
>
> export DISK=/dev/mmcblk1
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=${DISK} bs=1M count=10
>
> sfdisk >= 2.26.x
>
> sudo sfdisk ${DISK} <<-__EOF__
> 1M,,L,*
> __EOF__
>
> sfdisk <= 2.25.x
>
> sudo sfdisk --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__
> 1,,L,*
> __EOF__
>
> sudo mkfs.ext4 -L rootfs ${DISK}p1
>
> #now formated for ext4...
>
> Regards,
>
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