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From: cyril Romain <c.romain@laposte.net>
To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions
	<openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Making /var/lib persistent
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:43:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4623FC06.9060009@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176760923.4623f25b913f9@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>

Hi,

Koen Kooi wrote:
> Marcel Holtmann just pointed me to the fact that OE mount /var as tmpfs for
> almost all machines, which wipes /var/lib at boot, which will break bluez and
> dpkg.
>
> What would be the best way to preserve /var/lib (and maybe others) across boots?
>   
I suggest the use of symlinks in /var/lib that point to a let's say
/srv/ directory.
thoses links will be created at boot time, e.g.:
ln -s /srv/bitlbee/lib /var/lib/bitlbee

Best regards,

  cyril



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16 22:02 Making /var/lib persistent Koen Kooi
2007-04-16 22:13 ` Patrick Steiner
2007-04-16 22:40 ` Erik Hovland
2007-04-16 22:43 ` cyril Romain [this message]
2007-04-18  9:02 ` Jamie Lenehan
2007-04-18 14:24   ` Koen Kooi
2007-04-19  1:49     ` Jamie Lenehan
2007-04-19 17:37       ` Justin Patrin
2007-04-23 11:53       ` Paul Sokolovsky
2007-05-10 15:00       ` Paul Sokolovsky
2007-05-10 19:23         ` Koen Kooi
2007-05-10 23:06         ` Richard Purdie
2007-05-14 12:06         ` Koen Kooi
2007-05-14 12:21           ` Koen Kooi
2007-04-19 23:32   ` Matthias Hentges
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-14 17:15 [cc]smart

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