Fred wrote:
> Lonnie
>
> At 12:31 26/01/2008 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>   
>> Well, the unionfs "rw" overlay to the "ro" base mount is CF based,  but 
>> most any files that are written-to on a constant basis are  mounted as 
>> "tmpfs" which is a RAM based filesystem.
>>     
>
> OK. So am I right in thinking that for development, I save files to /tmp 
> like there's no tomorrow since those write's are actually made in RAM, and 
> only save the program to eg. /usr/local/bin once it's debugged?
>
> In other words, if I want stuff written to /var to survive a reboot, I must 
> edit /etc/fstab to remove the line for /var, copy files from /var to 
> /dev/hda2 somehow, reboot, and from then on, AstLinux will use hda2 to hold 
> /var?
>
> Here's what I have after adding /dev/hda2 as UnionFS:
>
> ======
> pbx ~ # mount
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/root on /oldroot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /oldroot/cdrom type vfat 
> (ro,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)
>   

^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm getting this too, and it's really annoying.

I have to modify my script that pushes a new release of the OS to first 
unmount this, otherwise when I go to remount /dev/hda1 it tells me that 
it's busy.

Is there a simple fix for this?

> /dev/hda2 on /oldroot/mnt/asturw type ext2 (rw,noatime)
> none on /oldroot/mnt/asturo type tmpfs (ro)
> none on / type unionfs (rw,dirs=/oldroot/mnt/asturw=rw:/oldroot/mnt/asturo=ro)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /var type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> pbx ~ #
> ======
>
> Thanks.
>   


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