auto-zram
Automatically configure zram as swap on a machine, using sensible defaults, with the ability to tweak it to your needs. (by ksandom)
ramroot
Load root file system to ram during boot. (by arcmags)
| auto-zram | ramroot | |
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| 1 | 5 | |
| 3 | 265 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.6 | 0.0 | |
| almost 4 years ago | about 2 years ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
auto-zram
Posts with mentions or reviews of auto-zram.
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and similar projects.
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Best Linux distro to revive an old laptop.
The RAM is likely to be restrictive (I have a similar spec'd system as a spare, and the RAM is the only pain point.) If so, you might want to consider auto-zram, which configures zram (a compressed RAM drive) as swap, with sensible defaults for your sustem.
ramroot
Posts with mentions or reviews of ramroot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Arch Linux done right
Now I can use ramroot and run the whole OS on RAM.
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Linux install to a USB
Anyway, I wrote and maintain a guide to make this setup: https://mags.zone/help/arch-usb.html. I also made a package to optionally load everything to RAM during boot: https://github.com/arcmags/ramroot.
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Tips on: Arch linux on usb as a daily driver
I wrote a tool to load root entirely into RAM on Arch. It checks available RAM and prompts on boot.
- How to make rescue/recovery partition that copies into RAM (live cd)?
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USB stick longevity as a boot drive
You could also use the Arch Linux guide above and install Arch Linux on the USB drive, making sure the boot and root partition sizes are less than the amount of ram in the machine you are booting on. Then install ramroot which will load up your system into ram on boot. This will mean the system runs off ram and not USB. If you need to make changes, install applications or update, you could boot it normally so it runs off USB as any changes won't be saved if it is booted into ram. If your home folder is on another partition on the USB, I don't think that is loaded into ram on boot so you can still save files to it and any personalisations should also be kept between boots.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing auto-zram and ramroot you can also consider the following projects:
nohang - A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
zram-init - A wrapper script for the zram linux kernel module with zsh and openrc support
wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.
systemd-swap - Script for creating hybrid swap space from zram swaps, swap files and swap partitions.
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
zfsUnlocker - A modular zfs unlocker hook for mkinitcpio on Archlinux.
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition