On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 at 09:36:59, Peter Lawler wrote:
> I'm trying to work out why I'm having no luck with pivot overlay on BB. I
> promise, I swear, I've tried everything on the wiki[1].
> 
> Here's my (admittedly self annotated) /etc/config/fstab
> -----
> # http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot?s[]=pivot
> config mount
>       option  target  '/overlay'
> #     option  device  /dev/sda1
>       option  uuid    'f606c02f-aace-4d45-aa4a-206c83477451'
>       option  fstype  'ext4'
>       option  options 'rw,sync'
>       option  enabled '1'
>       option  enabled_fsck    '0'
> 
> #config swap
> #     option  target  '/dev/sda2'
> #     option  uuid    'fd757ba2-fd17-43cc-8e4a-d6b822591bb7'
> #     option  enabled '1'
> 
> ----
> And here's the output of 'block detect'
> ----
> config 'global'
>       option  anon_swap       '0'
>       option  anon_mount      '0'
>       option  auto_swap       '1'
>       option  auto_mount      '1'
>       option  delay_root      '5'
>       option  check_fs        '0'
> 
> config 'mount'
>       option  target  '/mnt/sda1'
>       option  uuid    'f606c02f-aace-4d45-aa4a-206c83477451'
>       option  enabled '0'
> 
> config 'swap'
>       option  uuid    'fd757ba2-fd17-43cc-8e4a-d6b822591bb7'
>       option  enabled '0'
> ----
> The device can be mounted manually after boot, so I know it's not a missing
> module problem. dmesg also indicates no errors during boot. It just doesn't
> do the overlay.
> 
> I saw on the -devel list that there's something about OverlayFS v23 and
> above needing an extra directory to be given at mount time[2]. I'm wondering
> if that may be related, or whether I'm missing something else entirely.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> P.
> [1] 
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/extroot?s[]=pivot&s[]=overlay#openwrt_barrier_breaker_trunk
> [2]
> https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-October/028587.html
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It's been a while since i worked with extroot, but I'm pretty sure I had
to run /etc/init.d/fstab enable/start to make it work on bootup.

You've probably already tried this but I thought I'd mention it.

Johan 
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