X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Flive-initramfs.en.7.txt;h=de8a67c46fac24365646dd30ace6fd603291ee61;hb=2d45444aa9fdd1ba3a7566215ce1d29787a839e0;hp=f42a9ce75d6fa065fe8637885b128355277ec72c;hpb=990480f58dde1722f8ab87514b4443c1ea418b85;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index f42a9ce..de8a67c 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ live-initramfs will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled 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. 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. +informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels +will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image +files. This results in shorter boot times. {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**:: @@ -290,6 +290,18 @@ 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) +is used as a list of directories which not need be persistent: ie. their +content does not need to survive reboots when using the persistence features. + +This saves expensive writes and speeds up operations on volatile data such as +web caches and temporary files (like e.g. /tmp and .mozilla) which are +regenerated each time. This is achieved by bind mounting each listed directory +with a tmpfs on the original path. + + See also --------