From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 21:29:42 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 A2E6E1065686 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33218FC15 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi9 with SMTP id 9so407145pwi.13 for ; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:29:40 -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=Cgm4SvbfaYgCqTb+bUSMDfKDX/qScXKcl2X731z+pXw=; b=fCnd7VEGq7PTAkEKqxsFqDFHRsSAUAgjA/UJ2ZVZRrVSuXO1WCOCB+13hT87u/gbmu YdCtKllWgIQrWlZLZSzW0g2JPV8ksYBub97Hnw2im1xTpue9Y5UcZaSCwx+i0m0BJf/G uauuw4NFAtpwi7o1S6lLxxdjuBuXHm+9tS9GI= 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=rPGC+bKmwlsiUOQMgd+ydV51r2BpMh6wdhxGT9dxoDS834nYGMBR1NublADEx38MAI WXNY0DTf4wQkhL+6WDs0VBwPm9/p1enOCT0ztNuGHVTGC+PujCvxuLEKZqE8Z1Z+jnrq iEHEkr4YKX5Mp4kq84I1pjrXgfR34nwN3C52Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.152.209 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:29:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@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> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:29:39 -0600 Received: by 10.140.248.9 with SMTP id v9mr6218290rvh.101.1270589379828; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:29:39 -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: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:29:42 -0000 On 4/6/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically >>creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during >> boot. You don't need to do anything. >> >>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. > > 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? >From the var mtree spec /etc/mtree/* (if i recall, BSD.var.dist)