Received: from mailout.teamnet.de (mailout.teamnet.de [80.87.112.166]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDAAF781B4D for <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.teamnet.de (smtp.teamnet.de [80.87.112.146]) by mailout.teamnet.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E303F9005; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:09:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:09:28 +0000 (UTC) From: "Dr. Sascha Effert" To: Tomas Cc: alpineusers <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org> Message-ID: <60a83ecd-cf8b-4638-a69e-b9624f40b3fd@douglas2a.de> In-Reply-To: <1738813d0ed.afc5bc64378351.1214977881844480635@tomaszubiri.com> References: <1738813d0ed.afc5bc64378351.1214977881844480635@tomaszubiri.com> Subject: Re: Unmounting disk after boot. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3_186996487.1595747368956" X-Correlation-ID: <60a83ecd-cf8b-4638-a69e-b9624f40b3fd@douglas2a.de> ------=_Part_3_186996487.1595747368956 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 : > 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. > ------=_Part_3_186996487.1595747368956 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.




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