Philip Prindeville wrote: > 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?
Philip, This is not related to what Fred is asking. Fred wasn't talking about /oldroot/cdrom remaining mounted. He was talking about var (which does not reside on unionfs). If you don't have enough system memory, you must leave /oldroot/cdrom mounted. That's because the image file is still mounted loop back. If you have enough system ram that the image file is copied to a ramdisk, it should be possible to unmount /oldroot/cdrom. I say should because whenever I've tried, the system says there's a file in use and it can't be unmounted. Since I have not seen your updating script, I can only make the following suggestions for now. Either assume it's already mounted and just issue 'mount -o,remount rw /oldroot/cdrom' or check to see if it's mounted, then run the correct command depending if it's mounted or not mounted. As to Fred's persistent /var question, I would not want /var using the cf for everything. You could add some symbolic links (add your script to rc.local on /mnt/kd) at startup to link your partition from /var/<dir> to /mnt/kd/<dir> Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
