I agree! It sounds like just what I need. -----Original Message----- From: Manolo MartÃnez [mailto:manolo@austrohungaro.com] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 3:39 AM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] 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