Re: How to mount /usr on a CF

According to Toby Gray,
> On Saturday 02 August 2003 04:05, quoth thee thusly:

...

> > For my ipaq, I'm working on a recipe or script that would
> > use the filesystem's access time attribute to make space on
> > internal media by moving files not accessed during normal
> > operation to external media.
>
> I'm not sure that the access time is updated properly under Familiar, as
> it would lead to a lot of extra writes to the flash.

Good point. I mount my laptop hard drive with the
noatime option in my /etc/fstab to cut down on writes
and save battery life (otherwise the hard drive would
never spin down).
 
> > The scheme:
> ...snip...
>
> It's an interesting idea, though.

Hope I can make it work.
 
> > The 'find' included in familiar doesn't have anewer, so I'd
> > have to install the .deb, I guess
>
> There's an ipkg that contains the "full" (as opposed to Busybox) version
> of find. It's just called "find" and it's on the base feed. You might
> have to use the "-force-overwrite" switch to install it.

Thanks for the tip.

> > The thing that scares me is that there are some programs
> > (and I don't know which they are) that object to going
> > through symlinks to get their files.
>
> That's a pain, sure enough. We had a similar problem at work with KMail
> not liking NFS mounted filesystems or something.

Well, that's oddly comforting in a way.
Received on Sun Aug 03 00:23:03 2003