[ale] Replacing HD with a CF card for firewall box

[Warren Myers]

Why not leave a small hard drive in the machine for /var and /tmp? might
even be worth getting a 3.5-2.5 bracket and using a laptop drive for those
partitions.

WMM

On 5/14/07, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
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> I'm interested in the answers to most of these questions myself.  but
> i can only help out concretely with one of them.
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> On Mon 2007-05-14 10:28:32 -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:
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> > 2. What about the directory structure - would the system get angry
> > if certain directories (/var/run, /var/lock, etc) were not present
> > at boot time? Could a solution here be to specify an image file as
> > the mount "source" for the ramdisk, or would it be necessary to dd
> > in an image file at mount time?
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> if it's a stock debian install, you can set up the following variables
> in /etc/default/tmpfs:
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> RAMRUN=yes
> RAMLOCK=yes
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> they'll be read by /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh, which should
> automatically set up /var/run and /var/lock properly.
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> hth,
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