Thread: iT/OS 2006 - Implications for 'extrootfs'
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neiljerram is offline neiljerram
2006-05-21 , 23:19
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Originally Posted by aflegg
Indeed. It's also possible to get a working 770 by removing the MMC card: the unions just won't be mounted when you boot and you won't have dangling symlinks instead.
Good point.

Effectively you can mount the unions at any time, but the setup script includes an /etc/rc2.d script to mount them at boot, if the MMC card is present.
I'm afraid I still don't get the detail of this. I assume that when the 770 boots, the root filesystem is mounted as ext3 (or similar) on /. Then later, what we want is for the union as a whole to be mounted on /, and the old root filesystem to be one of the constituents of the union. So I'm curious about exactly how this is achieved, because my guess is that "mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/ unionfs /" would not work (because of recursion).

So, in my /home/user I have both the Ice Age 2 trailer which is in /home/user in the internal flash; and "Rise of the Cybermen" ...
Really? And I'm using your preset encoder to watch series 1 again on the tube.

Regards - Neil