Hi all,
Am 11.07.2018 um 14:07 schrieb Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com:
This might be off-topic, but has anyone managed to create a persisntent home directory inside /dev/mmcblk0p2 (the ext2/3 partition created by piCore itself, which I did maximize already)?
You can use the command
filetool.sh -bto backup a snapshot of the homedir to the SD card and it will be returned to that state on reboot.This is what I read from the docs and what I am currently using. Albeit, I am having a 300MB sound file in my home dir and it being part of the filetool.sh backup immensely slows down startup as the OS has to uncompress the audiofile.
Managed to shrink the existing filesystem in /dev/mmcblk0p2 using resize2fs as well as the partition using fdisk. Created yet another partition /dev/mmcblk0p3 with an ext4 filesystem which now gets mounted as home with the boot option home=/dev/mmcblk0p3
I do a similar thing, mounting an extra partition as read-only using /etc/fstab. I my home, i have a symbol link to the actual startup script on the extra partition. It is easy to remount the extra partition read/write when i have to update a project (which is usually simply a transfer from my laptop using rsync)
best, Thomas
-- Thomas Grill http://grrrr.org