Re: Setting Up Volatile Filesystem

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:40:08PM -0500, GROG! (Jeff Howie) wrote:
>OZ-GPE 3.5.4.1.release C860 (boxer)
>
>Hi all. In the previous (read 2.4 kernel) OZ releases I was able to
>add symlinks to be set up under /var to point to a non-volatile
>filesystem to preserve stuff like the ipkg lists & my cron tab. Now
>under 3.5.4.1 (specifically GPE) /etc/default/volatiles/00_core
>doesn't seem to be followed. I've made the following changes (which as
>I said worked previously):
>
>    /etc/default/volatiles$ diff 00_core 00_core.org
>    27a28
>    > d root root 0755 /var/lib/ipkg none
>    40,42d40
>    < l root root 0777 /var/lib/ipkg /home/local/ipkg
>    < l root root 0777 /var/cron /home/local/cron
>    < l root games 0777 /var/games /home/local/games
>
>Note that the directories under home/local do exist. Any ideas? thks

And in case it makes a diff, I forgot to mention that I've since moved
the /etc/default/volatiles/00_core.org file to
/etc/default/volatiles/old/00_core.org in case the .org was still
being picked up. no diff.

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