Basic questions about TinyCore Linux

[gerald_clark]

You probably have an error in your .filetool.lst.

[Kevin]

The contents are as follows:

root@tcm:/opt# cat .filetool.lst
etc/passwd
etc/shadow
etc/group

I removed the default entries (opt and home) since they are persistent.

[gerald_clark]

Show the output of "showbootcodes".

[Kevin]

Please see attachment.

[gerald_clark]

I don't view attached pictures.

[Kevin]

I'm unable to copy and paste the output.. I will try and type everything.

initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet vga=885 home=sda1 opt=sda1 mydata=databackup showapps kmap=qwerty/it superuser noswap host=tcm waitusb=5:UUID="c2ab1e47-e980-4330-9ffd-d8272815ce75" tce=UUID="c2ab1e47-e980-4330-9ffd-d8272815ce75" BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/boot/vmlinuz

[gerald_clark]

You are looking at mydata.tgz, but you have defined the data backup file as databackup.tgz with mydata=databackup.

[Kevin]

I renamed it. The automatic backup never worked.

[gerald_clark]

Run the backup command and see if it creates the backup file.
Are you sure your tce directory is writable?

[Kevin]

Yes as mentioned before when I manually run the command it works and then it correctly restores the data when booting up.

[gerald_clark]

What type of filesystem is your /opt on?
show the output of 'ls -l /opt'

[Kevin]

ext4.

root@tcm:/#ls -l /opt
total 4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root staff 51 Jan 24 17:32 bootlocal.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root staff 272 Jan 24 17:32 bootsync.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root staff 613 Jan 24 17:32 shutdown.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 31 Jan 24 17:32 tcemirror.sh

[gerald_clark]

I think you will need to add backup to shutdown.sh if you want a backup on each shutdown.

[Kevin]

Shouldn't it work "out-of-the-box" as the manual says?

[gerald_clark]

It does work if you use the GUI exittc.