Hello,
 one of alpine's key selling point is that it is so small that it can 
load itself into RAM. However I cannot unmount my usb once I booted, I 
must physically remove it and reattach it if I wish to inspect its 
contents, run fsck, format it or other actions.



If I run 'ps ax' 
it seems that most processes are within brackets (I think this means 
they don't correspond to any file on disk) except for one related to 
'login' and a few other ones about 'tty'




Is this a known bug? Is there a way to safely unmount the drive used to boot?



Thank you for your attention, and glory to the smol OS.

Hi,

never tried, but according https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM
your use case shoub be supported by adding "toram" as Kernel parameter. Have you done so?

Bests

Sascha

26.07.2020 00:25:00 Tomas <correo@tomaszubiri.com>:

> Hello, one of alpine's key selling point is that it is so small that it can load itself into RAM. However I cannot unmount my usb once I booted, I must physically remove it and reattach it if I wish to inspect its contents, run fsck, format it or other actions.
> 
> If I run 'ps ax' it seems that most processes are within brackets (I think this means they don't correspond to any file on disk) except for one related to 'login' and a few other ones about 'tty'
> 
> Is this a known bug? Is there a way to safely unmount the drive used to boot?
> 
> Thank you for your attention, and glory to the smol OS.
>