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Offline jerramy

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List of volatile files
« on: August 05, 2010, 11:19:12 AM »
The various modes of persistance still confuse me some, and I'm not necessarily sure which mode I'm operating in.  I didn't use any special boot codes that I know of (how do I determine what boot codes I'm using?), but I installed it to a harddrive (in VirtualPC).  The files that I want to persist have been added to .filetool.lst .  When I add extensions, I tend to click "Install", which puts them into /hda1/tce/optional and /hda/tce/onboot.lst .

Now if I create new files that I want to keep, (or as in my dselect example, tons of files get splattered shotgun style into the filesystem), I have no idea exactly what files exist that I might want to backup.   Ideally there would be some script I could run that would list every file that I've changes since I booted up.

The best idea I have right now for how to do this is to use the timestamps listed in "ls -la" to determine which were created at some time other than the boot time (which most kernel files share).

Ideas anyone?

Offline roberts

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Re: List of volatile files
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 12:41:23 PM »
That is why we don't use or promote Scatter Mode installations.
But to answer your question, you may be interested in:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=6943.0
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Offline jerramy

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Re: List of volatile files
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2010, 01:28:58 PM »
Thanks, that fits perfectly.

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Re: List of volatile files
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2010, 02:04:09 PM »
(how do I determine what boot codes I'm using?)
showbootcodes