Is there a way to save changes when you copy Porteus to RAM?

[KawaiiAurora]

Hey,
I have put Porteus Linux on an sdcard and it's awesome. It's formatted as ext4 but when I boot by copying Porteus into RAM, it doesn't save changes.. Is there a way to save changes when booting in ram so you get both the better speed and a proper system without having to log into everything again?

[Seva]

as root user:

open /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg file
find the following text:

LABEL copy2ram
MENU LABEL Copy To RAM
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz copy2ram

to the APPEND line add 'changes=porteus' and save the file
the line should look like this:

APPEND initrd=initrd.xz copy2ram changes=porteus

detailed information is available in the FAQ on the Porteus website

[KawaiiAurora]

Thanks! It was a real help ^^

[KawaiiAurora]

I have noticed that using that flag really slows down the system (my SDcard is 10MB/s or something like that (Class 10)) so I decided to copy the google chrome config folder and copy it every time I start the operating system since I only use Porteus for light browsing. Can you maybe add something that only saves changes when you restart/shutdown?

[Seva]

do all changes to the system, then add 'changes-ro' to the APPEND line and save the file and restart pc

[Ed_P]

Can you maybe add something that only saves changes when you restart/shutdown?

Yes, use the changes=EXIT: cheatcode. Something like

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changes=EXIT:/porteus3.0/changes/porteussave.dat

if you use a save.dat file like I do.

[Seva]

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changes=EXIT:/porteus/

seems to be the best solution

[Bogomips]

Normally run in RAM, Always Fresh and without changes. Trying out the best of the suggestions here, find changes to be a bit holey. For one thing, it doesn't restore all the activated modules. So to restore the setup had to do activations in rootcopy, to be precise: /porteus/rootcopy/etc/rc.d/rc.local. Doing this, some of the apps, active at time of restart/shutdown, got back some of their settings, as opposed to doing the activations once again when the system was up and running. Or am I missing something?

[Seva]

i use:

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from=/os copy2ram changes=/os/porteus changes-ro

it suits me, maybe there is something better, i dont know, "changes=EXIT:" makes the pc shut down long so i use read only changes