X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Flive-initramfs.en.7.txt;h=9766e213f005eddaa2281b11f1c4e9ce80553522;hb=dee9ff7b470820bd9d1c541a25c9341b79a511f0;hp=a66a85cd262bdf7188d1e8f6da5bb906b77fdbb8;hpb=f98dc580f82f77b9e4eba8a51f2dd1dd78509605;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index a66a85c..9766e21 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -197,14 +197,16 @@ This parameter disables Xorg auto-reconfiguration at boot time. This is valuable if you either do the detection on your own, or, if you want to ship a custom, premade xorg.conf in your live system. - persistent:: + persistent[=nofiles]:: live-initramfs will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "live-rw", "home-rw", and files called "live-sn*", "home-sn*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latter in appropriate locations (snapshots). Snapshots will be tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look at live-snapshot(1) for more -informations. +informations. If "nofiles" is specified too, only labels will be searched and no +filesystems will be mounted for searching file images or archives; this will +results in improved boot times. {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**:: @@ -288,6 +290,11 @@ in this file will be the "lowest" point in the aufs, and the last file in this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow. Without this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order. + /etc/live-persistence.binds + +This optional file, which resides in the rootfs system, not in the live media as above mentioned files, if exists will be used as a list of directories which not need to be persistent and which their content does not need to survive reboots. This is achieved by bind mounting for each directory listed there a tmpfs on the original path. This will permits to save precious writes and speed up operations for content like web caches and temporary files (like e.g. /tmp and .mozilla) which are regenerated each time. + + See also --------