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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Passing information from initramfs to real rootfs
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:44:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106883558306343@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-106880306401848@msgid-missing>

 On Fri, Nov 14, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  On Fri, Nov 14, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > is it possible to get information out of initramfs to be passed to the 
> > real root fs?
> 
> mkdir /foo
> mkfs.minix /dev/ram42
> mount -nt minix /dev/ram42 /foo
> echo my content > /foo/backup.txt
> umount /foo
> 
> ...
> 
> mount -n /dev/ram42 /oldinitramfscontent
> 
> 
> might work.

Doesnt work, the ramdisk content disappears during umount. Does anyone
know what it disappears in the initramfs context, but not in the running
system?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-14  9:43 Passing information from initramfs to real rootfs Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-14  9:47 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-14 17:42 ` Dave Dodge
2003-11-14 18:44 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2003-11-20  0:01 ` Greg KH
2003-11-20  6:41 ` Olaf Hering

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