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What parts of the filesystem to tmpfs/squashfs/sparseimage for USB live system

I want to create a live system on a USB key / SDCard with Linux Mint 14 (KDE or Debian Edition) that stores data persistently. The USB key needs to have at least one fat32 partition. As storage for ...
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(How) can I create a tmpfs as a regular (non-root) user?

The distribution is an Ubuntu server running the 2.6.35-30 Linux kernel. I would like to have a directory that sits completely in memory. Is this possible without root privileges?