[Voyage-linux] persistence of changes in root filesystem

[Punky Tse]

Hi Jim,

1. How do your reboot the system? "reboot" command or "reset" button?
2. read /boot/grub/menu.lst, you will see how rootfs is mounted.
3. How the /dev/hda1 is formated?  ext2 or ext3?

Regards,
Punky

On 12/5/2011 0:22, jegunn wrote:
>
> Hi, Punky.
>
> I am running the April 26 2.6.38-voyage kernel (Voyage-MPD) on a VIA 
> C7 system with a real (PATA) hard disk. I noticed last night that when
> I edited a few scripts in /usr/local/bin and also in /usr/lib/mpd
> and rebooted, the changes vanished. Clearly the rootfs filesystem
> did not get flushed to /hda1. I put the changes back, rebooted,
> and all was fine over the NEXT reboot. I installed Voyage with the
> `PC' configuration option, and was somewhat surprised that the root
> directory is still in a rootfs when the system is running. This
> is probably fine for a system as small as Voyage, but I would
> rather it run off the disk partition. I put a line in /etc/fstab
> saying / should be mounted on /dev/hda1, but it is never
> remounted there in the init. I am not sufficiently savvy to
> know either how to do this or to figure out why my changes
> SOMETIMES do not survive a reboot. Any help/ideas??? ( I removed
> the line from /etc/init.d/voyage-util which remounts / read-only
> just before the login, but I think have touched nothing else; I
> have it set up to autologin user mpd.) Now I think about it,
> why DO you remount / read-only if it is a running rootfs, running
> entirely in memory???
>
> thanks
>
> --jim
>
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