Hi Andreas, Sounds like a good idea to put the entire "/home/user" folder into a tmpfs but I have no idea how to get my data copied into this tmpfs prior to the system wanting to use it. Any idea?
Ingo > >On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Ingo Scherzinger <i...@miamiwave.com>wrote: > > > >If the file's contents have to be preserved between sessions, it's > > breaking > >the "read only system" paradigm. (You may still be able to use an usb > > drive > >for this purpose?) > > > > It's actually working fine writing edited data to the rw sda3 > > partition where some folders have been linked to. > > > >If the file can be recreated with the same content at each startup, > >i'd think about how to trick it to be on a temporary writable > >filesystem. I suppose we cannot change the default path for this > >file, and i'm not sure > > if > >you can a have link in your read only filesystem (/home/ingo) > >pointing to > > a > >yet-to-be-created file on a temporary filesystem, but given the > >annoyance factor of the problem, it may make sense to trick your > >whole /home/ingo > > onto > >a temporary filesystem (from where of course you will be free to > >create links to directories that reside on the read-only filesystem). > > > >Andras > > > > I tried that already. I was mounting the entire /home/ingo folder to a > > tmpfs. > > That way I didn't have all files I needed available. All system > > settings seemd to be gone. > > After getting the data partition to auto mount -rw I made a link to > > the .ICEauthority file. Didn't help. Maybe mounting drives comes later > > in the upstart order. I should check that out. > > > > Ingo > > >Well, when you mount your whole home to a tmpfs you have to copy all those >needed files and system settings on it, and if you can, you have to save them back >to permanent storage before shutdown. >Automounting drives from fstab may happen sooner or later during startup, but the >system is surely capable of mounting and temp-filesystems from the moment the >kernel is alive, and you can make things happen at a given moment in the boot >order by adding it to the right place in /etc/init.d/ > >Andras _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list