cleanup script copy update

Post#46 by **Ed_P** » 02 Dec 2017, 16:55

abelM PROBLEM!!

Last night after making changes to a couple of my scripts in /home/guest/ I ran the script to tweak cleanup to only save updated files. sed -i 's/cp -af /cp -afu /' /mnt/live/cleanup I checked the file and the update took. I shutdown and it updated my save.dat file. Today I rebooted and went to work on my scripts more and found that they didn't have any of the changes I made last night!!!

My save.dat file is 64% full with 300+MB available so it being full is not the problem.

Post#47 by **Ed_P** » 03 Dec 2017, 01:27

brokenman, you might want to hold off on the cleanup script change in 4.0 till this gets resolved.

Any chance cleanup doesn't use the local time setting the DE uses?

Post#48 by **apollo** » 03 Dec 2017, 07:59

Hi Ed,

did you update your initrd.xz as abelM/brokenman stated earlier in this thread?

cheers
apollo

Post#49 by **brokenman** » 03 Dec 2017, 12:33

I will have to investigate. I am not sure how cp -u handles updated files.

Post#50 by **Ed_P** » 03 Dec 2017, 13:59

apollo wrote: ↑
03 Dec 2017, 07:59
Hi Ed,

did you update your initrd.xz as abelM/brokenman stated earlier in this thread?

cheers
apollo

No, I boot from the 3.2.2 ISO.

In reviewing the begining of this thread I see that the adding of the u was already found to not work with 3.2.2.

Dumb me forgot.

Post#51 by **abelM** » 03 Dec 2017, 19:44

Hi Ed!

You're not alone. I've made the same mistake!

That's why I'm testing new code in dump-session bypassing cleanup save on exit

Code: Select all

# /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown
dump-session && rm -f /mnt/live/tmp/changes-exit

BTW I've added a small fix to dump-session you can see at direct update at dump session (Post by abelM #60792)

Regards

Post#52 by **apollo** » 03 Dec 2017, 19:48

@brokenman
regarding to the cp manpage, -u updates files which are "newer" in the source or are completely missing at the destination...should be the way we want it to work

Post#53 by **abelM** » 04 Dec 2017, 16:43

That's OK! Another interesting point is saving from union system to persistence without using a temporary folder. The proposed dump-session achieves both goals and cleanup could eventually too.

Regards

Post#54 by **abelM** » 13 Dec 2017, 15:44

Hi all!

There's a small fix at direct update at dump session (Post by abelM #61071)

Regards,

Post#55 by **Jack** » 19 Dec 2017, 19:12

I use a USB and it is ext4 format and I save my data in the changes directory on the USB. It works great on the first boot up but on the 2nd boot up it boots in to a black screen. It likes when I power down after the first boot up something gets delete in the changes directory on the USB. I must be the only one using this setup.

I thought it was my Mate build but I try Openbox and LXDE but they did it too (black screen).

I like to stay current but if it don't get fixed I won't be able too.