If you add anything to your system, or change any file that you had to previously change your astlinux box to read/write from read only mode, the updated file is stored on the unionfs partition. After reading up on unionfs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS) it helped me understand what was going on.
-Tim On Dec 22, 2007 3:44 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > > >> I was able to get asterisk 1.4 running on my net5501 box, with a > >> keydisk. > >> > >> Question-1: I was not able to get the root password to stick between > >> reboots with a keydisk, is this work to be done? > > > > This is where unionfs comes into play. While there are still some > > quirks, you can have persistent passwords by creating an additional > > partition on your storage device and adding a variable to the > > XX.run.conf file. The variable is asturw=/dev/partX where partX is > > the > > partition for unionfs read-write storage. I have this documented > > on the > > http://www.astlinux.org web page. > > OK, I found your reference here: > http://www.astlinux.org/node/30 > > How large should the "asturw" partition be? is +1M enough? > > Other than password changes, what else will auto-magically use the > unionfs partition? > > I found some useful tidbits on this subject a few weeks back here: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php? > msg_id=472FECA2.9050407%40djhsolutions.com > > This is slowly sinking in to my thick noggin. :-) > > Lonnie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
