# Chromium disk writes

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [3 September 2026 02:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464 "2026-09-03T02:25:51Z")
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### Author: ![dietnoob11](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dietnoob11](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/dietnoob11)
#### Post date: [3 September 2026 02:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464/1 "2026-09-03T02:25:51Z")

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I have chromium installed using DietPi software. I’m currently running DietPi on a microsd card. Is chromium already set up so that it writes to ram instead of disk? I don’t want to ruin my card. If not, how would I be able to do that?

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### Author: ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [3 September 2026 08:02 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464/2 "2026-09-03T08:02:02Z")

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It is not. And AFAIK it is not trivially possible. You need to link a regularly changing number of directories to a tmpfs. There is no single cache dir or setting to change it.

At least if Opera has not an entirely different profile setup 😅.

I am open for suggestions/methods if someone knows better. In any case, it would need to be an option, not default, since many SBC would run out of RAM quickly.

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### Author: ![Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/jappe/32/1788_2.png) [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [3 September 2026 10:17 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464/3 "2026-09-03T10:17:09Z")

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Hm but [according to Chromiums docs](https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/665acd5b6fc1e272f2eec78bedabe86cf10cd2e8/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md#chromium), the profile and the cache are at

```auto
~/.config/chromium
~/.cache/chromium

```

or at the [corresponding `$CHROME_CONFIG_HOME` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` diretories](https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/665acd5b6fc1e272f2eec78bedabe86cf10cd2e8/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md#chromium).

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### Author: ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [3 September 2026 10:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/chromium-disk-writes/25464/4 "2026-09-03T10:34:30Z")

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Oh looks like it is very differently setup than on Windows. Makes sense to use XDG standard dirs. I am having my first coffee just now …

So `~/.cache/chromium` contains at least the common browser cache of web assets? There are also GPU and shader caches, code, system, and extension caches. But those are not that relevant in size.