changes not saved on EXIT or by dump-session

[rych]

In Porteus 4.0 x64, when I manually activate a module and invoke the app, I can see its folder with the changes appearing in the live folder tree. However, those changes are not reflected in the changes sub-folder on the USB. I can stop and deactivate the module -- the changes sub-tree remains mounted in live file system.

That's to be expected because I actually boot with "changes=EXIT:/porteus/". Unfortunately, neither running the dump-session, nor actually rebooting saves the changes. The normal changes=/porteus/ cheatcode works fine.

[ncmprhnsbl]

i could be completely wrong, but .. maybe, try "changes=EXIT:/dev/<your device>/porteus/" or even "changes=EXIT:/dev/<your device>/porteus/<name of changes folder>" ie. full path
somebody who actually uses change=EXIT: , might have a better idea..

.. what does cat /mnt/live/tmp/changes-exit give?

[Ed_P]

Another file to check would be the changes-exit.conf file to see if it may be impacting your changes.

It's possible that the changes file only saves changes made to modules present when booting. Which from a changes file space point of view is a valid approach. Why save changes to folders which may never be used again.

So, you could create a module of your changes which you activate after you activate the module in question or you recreate the module you're using with your changes added to it.

[rych]

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root@porteus:~# dump-session 
syncing what's left in buffers
saving changes to /mnt/sdb2//porteus/ - this may take a while...
find: `bin': No such file or directory
find: `lib': No such file or directory
find: `lib64': No such file or directory
find: `opt': No such file or directory
find: `sbin': No such file or directory
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
sed: -e expression #4, char 1: unknown command: `_'
find: `bin': No such file or directory
find: `lib': No such file or directory
find: `lib64': No such file or directory
find: `opt': No such file or directory
find: `sbin': No such file or directory
session saved
root@porteus:~# cat /mnt/live/tmp/changes-exit 
/mnt/sdb2//porteus/

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root@porteus:~# cat /etc/changes-exit.conf
# Folders listed in this config file will be saved during reboot and shutdown when 'changes=EXIT:' cheatcode is used.
# Folders starting with '!' are omitted. This is useful if you want to save whole folder except for particular subfolder(s).
# An example is inclued in default config below: Porteus will save whole /var folder except for /var/run and /var/tmp subfolders.
# Other example: "!/home/guest/.mozilla/firefox/c3pp43bg.default/Cache" will skip saving of Firefox caches from guest account.
# Thanks to Rava for suggesting implementation of '!' exceptions.

/bin
/etc
/home
/lib
/lib64
/opt
/root
/sbin
/usr
/var
!/var/run
!/var/tmp

Indeed my folders were not listed in the changes-exit.conf as they are in unusual places -- adding them to this file seems to have solved the problem.Thank you Ed_P, and ncmprhnsbl