X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Flive-initramfs.en.7.txt;h=de8a67c46fac24365646dd30ace6fd603291ee61;hb=e0a050e3bcf51cf0bb1df9490487e0619d4aa9f9;hp=eb2e3026307faff3a266a847d496e3b9c1aac7e4;hpb=b5307f7e721586c8cb062fbb8004a2aec1301a74;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index eb2e302..de8a67c 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ Do not prompt to eject the CD on reboot. This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo. - noswap:: + swapon:: -This parameter disables usage of local swap partitions. +This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. nouser:: @@ -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, 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**:: @@ -288,6 +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 --------