Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: baz on March 30, 2010, 12:39:22 PM
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I have a persistent install for tce, opt and home and it works great. I am curious how people get by without such a setup. Do you re-download and re-install every app at every boot and reconfigure every setting? Do you "backup" all apps and all settings?
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I have set my tce directory to be a directory on the native filesystem. Is that what you mean by a persistent tce?
I don't have a persistent home or opt. My settings tend to settle down after a while and not change much, so I just manually run 'filetool.sh backup' whenever I make a change.
I also have a 'document' directory under my home directory; it's a softlink to a directory out on the native filesystem, so I guess that's persistent.
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Hey,
Yeah that's what I mean by persistent. I guess that circumvents the main questions I had regarding re-downloading apps and the like. Nice idea linking just a folder to the file system.
Baz
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I think almost everyone has a tce directory. Persistent home and opt are optional because the backup file saves the same areas (I don't use persistent home/opt because I save to a USB stick and want to minimize writes).
I boot base norestore if I want cloud mode to (say) try out an extension that I may or may not want. Of course then I have to reboot with normal persistence and download it again if I decide I want it.
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I boot base norestore if I want cloud mode to (say) try out an extension that I may or may not want. Of course then I have to reboot with normal persistence and download it again if I decide I want it.
It may be copied from /tmp/tce/optional, to not need a re-download.
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Thanks, good to know.