Hi there Iam quite new to aufs but I managed to get my gentoo boot a squashfs.img into aufs-ro and aufs-rw. My system boots successfuly but how can I access the rw-dir I defined in the initramfs after switch_root?
### init ############# ...pre-stuff ... # mount the usb with the squash.img and copy it to tmpfs mkdir -p /mnt/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 mkdir /mnt/tmpfs mount -t tmpfs -o size=1500m tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs cp -a /mnt/sdb1/squash.img /mnt/tmpfs umount /dev/sdb1 # make aufs ro-rw-newroot mkdir /mnt/ro_root mkdir -p /mnt/tmpfs/rw mount -o ro /mnt/tmpfs/squash.img /mnt/ro_root || rescue_shell mount -t aufs -o br=/mnt/tmpfs/rw:/mnt/ro_root none /mnt/root # Clean up. umount /proc umount /sys umount /dev # Boot the real thing. exec switch_root /mnt/root /sbin/init || rescue_shell ####################### my mount after switch_root looks like: ######################## rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) tmpfs on /mnt/tmpfs type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1536000k) /dev/loop0 on /mnt/ro_root type squashfs (ro,relatime) none on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=97dd6d33cdfc9433) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=505505,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) cgroup_root on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) openrc on /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib64/rc/sh/cgroup-release-a gent.sh,name=openrc) cpuset on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset) cpu on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu) cpuacct on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct) freezer on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid) ######################### ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may
