Porteus

Hello,

my RAM-Only Mini-PC has 4GB of Ram, when I use porteus in copy2ram mode, the virtual disk only seems to have 2,2 GB available - so how can this be increased because there seems more ram been unused ?

kind regards

Use ramsize cheatcode.

Does it will cause probelms if I set the Disk Size to 3,5GB when the PC has 4GB available ?

There shouldn't any problems but please be careful as your system may needs some MB for "shared memory".

there is alternative solution for RAM , you can make new Swap device or new Swap file. if you make swap file, then you can mount it and delete it.

You can also experiment with the "zram" cheatcode, it creates a virtual block device inside your RAM that acts as swap, with the data being compressed.

You mentioned this is a RAM-only machine, does it have a USB port or card reader? You could add a usb flash drive or SD card for storage and reduce the amount of RAM you allocate for changes, or you could even create a swap partition on your flash media and activate it for additional RAM. This is slower (usually much slower than having swap on a hard drive) and it's not good for the flash media because it gets written and erased a lot, but it does work in a pinch for the right situations. I do this when I'm compiling stuff for ARM - my tablet only has 1GB of RAM and several programs require up to 3 GB in order to compile, so I stick in a USB flash drive with a swap partition on it