Arch Linux

Description:

To avoid using the SSD drive in my Dell Mini 9, to minimise wear, one suggestion I've encountered is to put any file systems that don't need to be preserved across boots on a tmpfs file system e.g. in /etc/fstab

#http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/
# use RAM for various temporary file systems
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777,size=256M 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777,size=256M 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777,size=256M 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=755,size=256M 0 0

I've had no significant issues with any of the daemons I'm using, except the laptop-mode-utils. It presumes that the directory /var/run/laptop-mode is persisent, and therefore when it starts, the

touch /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled

command in /etc/rc.d/laptop-mode fails.

I'd like to suggest that the following "if" section is added to the /etc/rc.d/laptop-mode script, creating that directory if it doesn't exist, and setting it's correct permissions and ownership:

--
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting laptop-mode"

# support /var/run being on a tmpfs file system
if [ ! -d /var/run/laptop-mode-tools ]; then
mkdir -m 755 /var/run/laptop-mode-tools
chown root:root /var/run/laptop-mode-tools
fi

touch /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled
--

Additional info:
* package version(s)

laptop-mode-tools 1.47-1


Thanks,
Mark.