On Monday 28 February 2005 06:32 pm, "Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joshua Tinnin > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:03 PM > On Monday 28 February 2005 04:55 am, "Clay" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the > > question. I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to > > have rc.conf located is not yet available when the file is read. > > Is there a way to have this FS mounted prior to rc.conf being read? > > Could I maybe place this mount point above the root in fstab? I > > will give it try when I have time later today. > > Perhaps there is a better solution that will eliminate the need to > deal with this issue. You might consider writing a script that will > backup the files you want, which you write once and use forever, or > you can dump the root filesystem (for one) to a backup disk and/or a > compressed file. This can be done on a regular basis with a cron job. > I'm not sure what your specific needs are, but there are easier ways > to do backups. -
> I could and may eventually write a script. > > I am putting together a media server for hosting my CD's as MP3's. I > am wanting to move as many of system and app config files I change > through this process to a location on my "data" partition so that I > won't have to redo them in the event that I rebuild the root > partition. OK, well I'm not terribly familiar with working around the normal boot process, other than working with various bootloaders. I am not sure, but it could be a bit tricky. Maybe someone else would know ... ? - jt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
