persistent files on a mouted disk image?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: persistent files on a mouted disk image?
started by: michaelbez

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Posted by michaelbez on May 03 2006,09:59

I am running DSL on a machine with 64 MB would like to find a way storing persistent files on a mounted disk image instead of using the DSL backup restore feature. I would like to do this so that I will be able to install more extensions that I can onto the ramdisk, and I like the idea of my files still existing if DSL hangs if it runs out of memory. I am not able to have any swap as I am booting off of a internal CF card from a frugal install.

I did try by creating an a disk image /cdrom/hd.img, mounting on /mnt/hd, and do copying everything from /ramdisk (except var) to /mnt/hd. I then I edited the /opt/bootlocal.sh so that it removers /ramdisk/opt and /ramdisk/home, then creates symlinks in /ramdisk to every directory in /mnt/hd. Then I used the DSL backup to and backup to hda1. When DSL boots it all works great until I try to install an new extension the everything stops working !

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