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| -rwxr-xr-x | liveinit | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ PERSISTENCE="@PERSISTENCE@" LIVEMEDIA="" # By default, let the media determine if we can write persistent changes: +# However, if we define TORAM=1, we will also set VIRGIN=1 since we want +# to avoid anything that writes to disk after we copy the OS to RAM. VIRGIN=0 # Used for debugging the init; set to '1' to enable explicit pauses> @@ -135,6 +137,7 @@ for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do ;; toram) TORAM=1 + VIRGIN=1 # prevent writes to disk since we are supposed to run from RAM ;; tz=*) TZ=$(echo $ARG | cut -f2 -d=) @@ -291,7 +294,12 @@ if [ "$RESCUE" = "" ]; then # We need a mounted filesystem here to be able to do a switch_root later, # so we create one in RAM: - mount -t tmpfs -o defaults none /mnt + if [ $TORAM -eq 1 ]; then + RAMSIZE=90% # need to be able to load the entire OS in RAM + else + RAMSIZE=50% # the default value. + fi + mount -t tmpfs -o defaults,size=${RAMSIZE}% none /mnt # Find the Slackware Live media. # TIP: Increase WAIT to give USB devices a chance to be seen by the kernel. |