From: yts@meansoxygen.o2.pl   
      
   I'd like to replace HDD with CompactFlash+IDEadapter and   
   to setup system entirely on CompactFlash memory card.   
   (In notebook/laptop this'll mean en enormous energy/battery savings!)   
      
   And I also want to save a CF card from too many writes to it.   
   The reason: longevity of such flash memory and also the speed - since writes   
   consume more time than reads.   
      
   Is there any ready solution to use the folders: /tmp, /var and /home in read-   
   only mode?  ;)   
      
   All (minor) modifications would be kept in the memory as kind of   
   "differences",   
   and only when the system was shut down, or on explicit user's demand, the   
   modifications would be writen down back to "disk" CF?   
      
   The point is not to exert media with too frequent writes. Only just browsing   
   wwws means countless brower's "history" updates etc.,   
   moving/positioning windows constantly make changes in KDE configuration   
   files,   
   all such frequent modifications definitely are not good neither necessery   
   to write back to the 'disk' in real-time...   
      
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