-.TH LIVE\-BOOT conf 2012\-04\-08 3.0~a26-1 "Debian Live Project"
+.TH LIVE\-BOOT conf 2012\-07\-18 3.0~a36-1 "Debian Live Project"
.SH NAME
\fBlive-persistence.conf\fR \- Configuration file for persistence media in
.SH DESCRIPTION
If live-boot probes a persistence volume with the label (or GPT name,
-or file name, but from now on we will just say "label") "custom\-ov",
+or file name, but from now on we will just say "label") "persistence",
that volume's persistence is fully customizable through the
\fBlive-persistence.conf\fR file stored on the root of its file system. Any such
labeled volume must have such a file, or it will be ignored.
.PP
-The format of \fBlive-persistence.conf\fR allow empty lines and lines starting
+The format of \fBlive-persistence.conf\fR allows empty lines and lines starting
with a "#" (used for comments), both which will be ignored. A so
called "custom mount" has the format:
.PP
.PP
For each custom mount \fIDIR\fR must be an absolute path that cannot
contain white spaces or the special . and .. path components, and
-cannot be /live (or any of its sub-directories), or / (for the latter,
-use "full-ov" persistence instead). Once activated all changes (file
+cannot be /live (or any of its sub-directories).
+Once activated all changes (file
deletion, creation and modification) to \fIDIR\fR on the live file
system are stored persistently into a path equivalent to \fIDIR\fR on
the persistence media, called the source directory. The default way to
permissions and ownership will be optimistically set according to
\fIDIR\fR. It will also be bootstrapped by copying the contents of the
\fIDIR\fR into its source directory on the persistence media. The
-bootstrapping will not happen when the \fBlinkfiles\fR or \fBunion\fR
+bootstrapping will not happen when the \fBlink\fR or \fBunion\fR
options are used (see below).
.SH OPTIONS
options in a coma-separated list:
.IP "\fBsource\fR=\fIPATH\fR" 4
When given, store the persistence changes into \fIPATH\fR on the
-persistence media. \fIPATH\fR must be a relative path (w.r.t. the
+persistence media. \fIPATH\fR must be a relative path (with respect to the
persistence media root) that cannot contain white spaces or the
special . or .. path components, with the exception that it can be
just . which means the persistence media root. This option is mostly
will be in effect):
.IP "\fBbind\fR" 4
Bind-mount the source directory to \fIDIR\fR. This is the default.
-.IP "\fBlinkfiles\fR" 4
+.IP "\fBlink\fR" 4
Create the directory structure of the source directory on the
persistence media in \fIDIR\fR and create symbolic links from the
corresponding place in \fIDIR\fR to each file in the source directory.
links will reappear after a reboot. To permanently add or delete a
file one must do so directly in the source directory.
.IP
-Effectively \fBlinkfiles\fR will make only files already in the source
+Effectively \fBlink\fR will make only files already in the source
directory persistent, not any other files in \fIDIR\fR. These files
must be manually added to the source directory to make use of this
option, and they will appear in \fIDIR\fR in addition to files already
corresponding to the device name). The \fBlive-persistence.conf\fR file can
easily be edited through this mount, as well as any source directories
(which is especially practical for custom mounts using the
-\fBlinkfiles\fR option).
+\fBlink\fR option).
.SH EXAMPLES
for ease of reference):
.TP 7
1.
-/home/user1 linkfiles,source=config-files/user1
+/home/user1 link,source=config-files/user1
.TP
2.
-/home/user2 linkfiles,source=config-files/user2
+/home/user2 link,source=config-files/user2
.TP
3.
/home
.PP
One could argue, though, that lines 1 and 2 in the example
\fBlive-persistence.conf\fR file above are unnecessary since line 3 already
-would make all of /home persistent. The \fBlinkfiles\fR option is
+would make all of /home persistent. The \fBlink\fR option is
intended for situations where you don't want a complete directory to
be persistent, only certain files in it or its sub-directories.
.PP
Live mailing list at <\fIdebian-live@lists.debian.org\fR>.
.SH AUTHOR
-live\.persist was written by anonym <\fIanonym@lavabit.com\fR> for the
+live\-persistence.conf was written by anonym <\fIanonym@lavabit.com\fR> for the
Debian project.