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Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp

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On Monday 17 February 2020 06:57:56 Carl Fink wrote:

> On 2/17/20 5:00 AM, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> > elvis wrote:
> >> On 17/2/20 3:10 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings all;
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to remove as much write activity as possible from the
> >>> u-sd that a raspi boots from.  To that end I'll create a partition
> >>> on an ssd, of 5000 megs, then copy the existing /tmp's contents to
> >>> it it, then mount the ssd partition of that name on top of it
> >>> where it is in the u-sd now. A partition labeled tmp-u-sd-temp
> >>> would be about the least mistake prone to put in /etc/fstab. I did
> >>> this once at least a decade or more ago because I outgrew the
> >>> /home/partition but can't in 2020 remember the fstab syntax a
> >>> decade+ later.
> >>>
> >>> Can someone help
> >>
> >> This is not the asked solution to the problem, but why not just
> >> have your root on nfs? No need to worry about any writes to the
> >> card then.
> >
> > I, for myself, have the problem, that can't catch him.
> >
> > He is speaking about a u-sd, but I'm only familiar with: ssd or usb.
> > Both sound similar, are different to handle, and at the end it's
> > something completly different he want's to know.
>
> I believe he means a "micro SD" and is using the letter "u" to stand
> in for Greek mu.

Exactly Carl.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-02-17 06:20 +0100
  Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-02-17 07:40 +0100
    Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-02-17 16:40 +0100
  Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-02-17 09:30 +0100
    Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-02-17 11:10 +0100
      Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-02-17 13:00 +0100
        Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-02-17 16:50 +0100
        Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-02-17 17:10 +0100
      Re: need syntax for /etc/fstab to mount space on an ssd over /tmp Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-02-17 17:10 +0100

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