David Kerr wrote: > Can someone explain unionfs to me. I understand that it enables you to > write to the astlinux system disk, I'm guessing by saving the changes > onto the hda designated for use by unionfs. But my question is more > specific to astlinux... is using unionfs an alternative to using a > keydisk, or do you need both? >
Yes. You can use unionfs (via asturw) on Astlinux and not need a key disk. In fact, if you use the genunion script to setup your unionfs partition, it will create a /mnt/kd directory on your unionfs partition and copy the contents that would have gone onto the key disk partition in the past. I use this approach for all of my new installations. I had started work on a "movekd" script which would move the contents of an old key disk onto a unionfs partition, but this would be fairly easy to do. Controlling what is used (unionfs, key disk or both) is handled by changing the KCMD line in your astlinux-xx.run.conf file. asturw must be set for unionfs to be active. astkd for key disk. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com http://www.djhsolutions.com/wiki ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ 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]
