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Package: fake-hwclock
Severity: minor
The date and time is save in the file /etc/fake-hwclock.data, but
according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard it should be under
/var. /var/lib/hwclock/fake-hwclock.data would be the correct, I
think.
Kind regards, Florian
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:53:49PM +0200, Florian wrote:
>Package: fake-hwclock
>Severity: minor
>
>The date and time is save in the file /etc/fake-hwclock.data, but
>according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard it should be under
>/var. /var/lib/hwclock/fake-hwclock.data would be the correct, I
>think.
Hi Florian,
Normally you'd be right, but fake-hwclock is a special package by its
very nature. Its data has to be accessible *before* any filesystems
are fscked or mounted normally, so that it can set the clock before
fsck complains about things like "last mount time in the future".
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee of this happening if the stored
clock state is stored under /var. About the only safe place I can see
here is /etc...
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