MX Linux Forum

I know that MX Linux, like Debian, can run from RAM when booting a live-iso image via the toram boot option. I'm curious as to whether anyone is looking into being able to place the root partition into RAM during boot-up so as to speed up processes? I believe Arch Linux has something similar called Ramroot, but I haven't found much similar on the Debian-based distros.

It might be useful in my use-case because I have excess RAM (32GB) and a slow storage system (SCSI2, HDD) that can't take advantage of a SSD.

Haven't given the subject much thought in a long time, but a quick search found this:
https://gist.github.com/avinash-oza/979 ... 6fbf21bd9c

... It is an old story ... a kind of a same processus than the preload prefetch story.

@nellaiseemai Thank you! That web page was indeed near the top of search results; I was a little put off by the warning on the snapshots script:

Please, do not run this on a production machine! For testing only!

I was just wondering if anyone here had tried it or was working on this. Apparently some seem to believe this has no worthwhile advantage.