From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 03:34:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AA316A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:34:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A95AE43D49 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:34:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.171.3.242 with login) by smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 03:34:28 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Clay Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:34:25 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <006801c51d4b$c95e99a0$be00a8c0@crskayak> <200502281803.56890.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <016601c51e06$eaf3a400$be00a8c0@crskayak> In-Reply-To: <016601c51e06$eaf3a400$be00a8c0@crskayak> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502281934.27158.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Re: Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:34:29 -0000 On Monday 28 February 2005 06:32 pm, "Clay" wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joshua Tinnin > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:03 PM > On Monday 28 February 2005 04:55 am, "Clay" > 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