2009/8/21 Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: > On 08/21/2009 08:20 AM, Song Zhiwei wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount >> /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into >> the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot work. > > Mount points are specified in /etc/fstab. I mount my /var/tmp/portage there > with: > > none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > You can look-up the tmpfs mount options to specify the amount of RAM. > Default is half the RAM in the system. > > With that being said, your system will break horribly if you mount /var as a > tmpfs. /var is supposed to survive reboots.
This is the question. How to mount /var as a tmpfs and the system will not break? > > >
