Mirrored ~/.config ?

[brokenman]

It should work. It is probably permissions if you are copying as root.

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mkdir -p /mnt/sdxY/rootcopy/home/guest/ 
cp -a --parents /root/.config/* /mnt/sdxY/rootcopy/home/guest/.config/

## Just to be sure
chown -R guest:guest /mnt/sdxY/rootcopy/home/guest 

[Bogomips]

Maybe in the porteus/rootcopy/etc/rc.d/rc.local script inserting:

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cp -a /mnt/sd**/porteus/rootcopy/root/.config  /home/guest/.config
chown -R guest:guest /home/guest/.config

could work?

[Bogomips]

Corrected previous post. Did not take into account .config being directory.

First try suggestion without wildcard. See if it works.

[Bogomips]

After a bit of experimentation with cp -a, maybe this could work:

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rm -rf --one-file-system  /home/guest/.config
cp -a /mnt/sd**/porteus/rootcopy/root/.config  /home/guest
chown -R guest:guest /home/guest/.config

[Bogomips]

^ This is not very clear. You should have got something if the above code was in rc.local script of rootcopy folder.

• The .config in /home/guest should have been deleted
• So, is .config different from /mnt/sd**/porteus/rootcopy/root/.config?

[Bogomips]

In the start up screen you should have seen if .config was being deleted, unless it whizzes past you too fast. Then the next thing to investigate is to see what is in .config, and whether it is different from the /sd../../root/.config. Can you not see the contents of .config?

[Bogomips]

So, ok, after rootcopy has been processed on startup, open a terminal and post the output of command, if not too long:

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diff -qr .config  /mnt/sdb2/porteus/1508290631/rootcopy/root/.config

[Bogomips]

OK then,

• make

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  #!/bin/bash
  rm -rf --one-file-system  /home/guest/.config
      cp -a /mnt/sdb2/porteus/1508290631/rootcopy/root/.config  /home/guest
      chown -R guest:guest /home/guest/.config

  into script, say blue.sh.
• Then

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  chmod a+x blue.sh

• Boot parameter (cheatcode) cliexec=/home/guest/blue.sh
• Compare as before

[Bogomips]

Log in as root, and then compare:

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    diff -qr /home/guest/.config  /mnt/sdb2/porteus/1508290631/rootcopy/root/.config

[Bogomips]

Seems to be getting a bit closer. Next try,

• after doing comparison:

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  init 4

• Lastly instead of cliexec, use: guiexec=/home/guest/blue.sh

[tome]

Why

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rm -rf --one-file-system  /home/guest/.config

- it will delete all, even files that will not be copied from rootcopy so at this stage you can probably use

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cp -a /root/.config  /home/guest

Another choice is to copy and point (symlink) guest/.config and root/.config to non posix filesystem, but it is not possible to share some configurable files (eg geany). Rootcopy is not universal - you can not overwrite directories with symlinks.

[Bogomips]

Why

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rm -rf --one-file-system  /home/guest/.config

- it will delete all, even files that will not be copied from rootcopy so at this stage you can probably use

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cp -a /root/.config  /home/guest

Because .config exists and is a directory:

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guest@porteus:~$ diff -qr apak tst/apak
Only in apak: cld
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a tst/apak /home/guest
guest@porteus:~$ diff -qr apak tst/apak
Only in apak: cld

Why run level 4 (init)?.

Same result?

Good.

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init 4

Starts X.

[Bogomips]

Still booting to login... although I'm very anxious to see the end result.
I first encountered "changes" like approaches over 10 yrs ago (eg. DSL/cowloop).
Even then I felt default parameter "overwrite" was more pragmatic than "save".

Getting insufficient feedback to be of any meaningful help.

1. Do you normaly have to log in?

2. Still booting to login

   Where? In console (init3) or in X?
3. Did you try tome's suggestion? Along the lines of

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   cp -a /mnt/sdb2/porteus/1508290631/rootcopy/root/.config  /home/guest
   chown -R guest:guest /home/guest/.config

   in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
4. If you were in a console did you login as root and do init 4?
5. Did you try booting with guiexec=/home/guest/blue.sh?

[Bogomips]

Have you tried booting with guiexec=/home/guest/mirror.sh, and then logging in as guest?

[Bogomips]

Any better if we remove first statement from mirror.sh script, and just have:

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    #!/bin/bash
        cp -a /mnt/sdb2/porteus/1508290631/rootcopy/root/.config  /home/guest
        chown -R guest:guest /home/guest/.config

?