From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 20:46:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424A31065673 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:46:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f197.google.com (mail-pz0-f197.google.com [209.85.222.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1092D8FC13 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk35 with SMTP id 35so100038pzk.3 for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:46:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=EVdZTR3GXBfNKtb014uzAM8TjIGXXl5h8ohIE/0APXE=; b=f1qJAKq1Kq4GASadCNa7G7TIeh4LnUFhwYfYihp1pYOOgGE2lWfO64g5+n5zaYiWis jtJ6utDRMeYStkiYpcAzgazXUz+rRCSI/oajhSoCOVyvv/G93WfjfDydY2kt3AjOfq6q FyvkBjpA2p+nf8dUEALlTHjk64339JHwAlPV8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Ls/fNB5/tTFyywLjsQfLJ+uixWCWGFCvkbf6VOtyX0Qq38lJHxcP+Igi+MHrGpqVyV RmDLpG/qqO8CwlbdgCURXYHTNERFjWhl2LvbuBY1bYNpV/YzihbbXcK0ak8NfCSKQEXm tUG0KwMKLxjsZWofoe6ldsTtlOfsdwGNgp78E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.152.209 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:46:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:46:48 -0600 Received: by 10.143.153.9 with SMTP id f9mr4006952wfo.29.1270673209421; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Peter Steele Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:46:50 -0000 On 4/6/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom >> directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this >> directory. I can get >around this but I wonder what else might not be >> included? > > I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks like > what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory structure but > no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /var to be populated with > the full contents of the real /var? > > Not that I know of, unless you use the advantages of mfs then. Full circle, bud. Now you're asking for necessities of the mfs or mfsroot systems.