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
next prev 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
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2007-05-14 17:15 [cc]smart
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