I have been working on bering for a while now. I made a mistake that took me long while to figure out. I am using a 32MB DoM. I boot off the dom. Then I mount the dom to edit syslinux.cfg to add lrps in syslinux. Then I make changes in the config files and back up "all except log" on the dom. Procedure is absolutely correct. However I was hogging memory and disk. I did not realise it till one back up failed saying disk is full. My root partition was also full - 16MB!
My root.lrp was 13MB - amazingly large. I did a tar -ztf root.lrp and found that it had a /hdd directory which was my dom mount point. Thus for every back up, the contents of the hard disk were getting packed into root.lrp. I learnt my lesson. I unmount the DoM before every backup. My disk utilisation is back to 4MB and root partition to 8MB. I do not know if this is a common mistake or if anyone has gone thro' this. If not maybe it qualifies for the FAQ so that others learn not to be stupid. On this front, can lrcfg be modified to unmount all partitions except root /tmp and /var/log before back up and mount them back? Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tim Dinkins Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] can't back up initrd I have Bering booting off of compact flash. I have lots of extra packages because of the extra space afforded. When I back up initrd.lrp it gets totaly hosed and I have to copy a fresh one over to boot again. Has anyone seen or fixed this problem? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
