Re: Setting Up Volatile Filesystem

"GROG! (Jeff Howie)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:26:15PM -0500, GROG! (Jeff Howie) wrote:
>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?
>
>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.

I also can't seem to find any info via google about the setup of
volatile filesystems in linux. So if anybody has any ideas, please
don't hesitate :?).

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