ramroot

Author here. Awesome to see some interest in my project. I'm currently working on the next version in my spare time (you'll see it in the dev branch). Improvements include: configuration now done via /etc/ramroot.conf, ability to specify actions taken for other partitions, ability to copy files to any location only when booting from RAM (allowing custom configs and whatnot to be used when in the live environment), new install hook that includes binaries and modules rather than adding them to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, sudo will no longer be a required package, custom memory requirement settings, and more... Also, I have gotten this to work on Debian, Ubuntu, and Kali with minor modifications. I plan to include a makefile for installing to these distros but don't plan on packaging for them at this time. https://github.com/arcmags/ramroot

Ooh, that sounds really handy! I've been using Arch with ramroot[0] on my USB for this purpose, although it takes a minute or two to transfer everything to RAM. [0] https://github.com/arcmags/ramroot