Thanks a lot for the tips. On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 May 2017 at 10:22, cristian pancià <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI there, it happend twice i had a freebsd.json with all the set ups, > but i've done some reboot, and i can't find it seems like disappeared. > > Doing a vmadm get UUID i can have all the info but doing a find . / > freebsd.json no way to get it > > Any point about that strangeness? > > Where did you store the file? The home directory of the root user > (i.e., "/root") is not persistent -- it's a part of the ramdisk image, > so its contents are lost on reboot. If you look at the mounted file > systems in the global zone, there are a few places which _are_ > persistent; e.g., "/opt" and "/var" are mounted out of the "zones" > pool. Files in persistent locations will survive a reboot. > > On my personal SmartOS machine, I have created a (custom) persistent > home directory for the root user -- "/var/root". Then I have a > startup script[1] in which I do this: > > mount -F lofs -O -o rw /var/root /root > > The "lofs" file system is a bit like the FreeBSD "nullfs", or bind > mounts in Linux. It can make one tree within the file system (in this > case, the persistent "/var/root") appear in place of another. > > [1]: https://gist.github.com/jclulow/2606370 > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
