No capability to remove boot media with a savefile

[Rava]

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That settles it, then. The solution already exists, you are just unable to find it.

Still you request me coding it anew. Quick audacious of you, instead of, you know, doing the obvious and finding and looking at the already existing solution.

[Ed_P]

You are by far the better coder and even have a whole thread backing that up: Ravas coding goodies. I don't.

[Rava]

You are by far the better coder and even have a whole thread backing that up

That might be, but you ignore the elephant in the room:

The solution already exists […]
[D]oing the obvious and finding and looking at the already existing solution.

Please answer the obvious and no moving the goalpost.

[Ed_P]

I believe the system shutdown uses the /etc/rc.d/rc.6 and /mnt/live/cleanup files. A reference to changes-exit.conf is on lines 38 and 40 of the cleanup file.

[Rava]

I believe the system shutdown uses the /etc/rc.d/rc.6 and /mnt/live/cleanup files. A reference to changes-exit.conf is on lines 38 and 40 of the cleanup file.

indeed, it is the section of

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# Save 'changes=EXIT:' session:

There you have the code you need to examine:

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  if [ "$ans" = "" ]; then
	DEST=`cat /tmp/changes-exit`; NAME=`basename $DEST`; MNAME=/memory/images/changes; FOLDERS=`grep '^/' /union/etc/changes-exit.conf | sed s/^.//g`
	echo "saving changes to $NAME - do not power off the PC"
	cd /memory/changes; rm -rf var/lock/subsys/* var/run/laptop-mode-tools/* `grep '^!' /union/etc/changes-exit.conf | sed s/^..//g | tr "\n" " "`

and the following lines.

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Maybe how /tmp/changes-exit is set up is also of importance.

[Ed_P]

Maybe how /tmp/changes-exit is set up is also of importance.

/mnt/live/init & /mnt/live/linuxrc Lines 154, 273, 284.

[Rava]

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root@porteus:/# head -n 3 /mnt/live/init
#!/bin/sh
### linuxrc script by brokenman <http://www.porteus.org>

root@porteus:/# 

Wow. made by our famous (now retired) brokenman himself, seemingly without any needed changes.

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At least there are no documented changes according to the initial code lines.

[Ed_P]

Cave! Be aware that most likely in /home there are quite some files you do not want to save, e.g. the often quite large ~/.cache/ .

It looks like this would be easier to impliment.

- excluding the cache folder

I like this idea Rapha_.

In my changes.sh script I changed my

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sudo -S find /mnt/live/memory/changes  -iname "*" -mmin -$X

line to be

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sudo -S find /mnt/live/memory/changes  -not -path "*/.cache/*"  -iname "*" -mmin -$X