I agree! It sounds like just what I need. -----Original Message----- From: Manolo Martínez [mailto:manolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 3:39 AM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: creating an archlinux usb key with persistence On 03/13/14 at 03:59am, Mark Lee wrote: > While I don't know of any specific instructions on the Arch wiki, you > can install Arch Linux onto a usb stick like a regular {H,S}DD. In my > case, I made three partitions. The first was an NTFS partition for > using the usb stick as a data transferring device; the second was a > FAT32 boot partition (for EFI and Syslinux booting); the third was a > BTRFS root partition (with transparent LZO compression enabled to > reduce read/write). In addition, I use a script to place certain > directories (mostly $HOME directories in my > case) in a tmpfs partition (I just link them to /tmp) to decrease the > effect of USB writes on the system. My script syncs the tmpfs > directores to disk every 5 minutes. Since it's a full Arch Linux > system, it upgrades and evolves like any other Arch system. That sounds amazing, and I want one :) If you have a fuller blog post somewhere, or that script is available, I'm interested. Manolo
