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In the "cheap" VPS world, you can normally only install an image from a limited range of ISOs. The one I'm looking at at the moment lets you select between 2 or 3 versions of Alma, Rocky, ...
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I am unable to patch OverlayFS vulnerability (CVE-2021-3493). They said in github that it is patched in 5.11 kernel however i have installed multiple kernels (5.11,5.15,6.2 etc) and also compiled from ...
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I have Ubuntu installed on an SSD and would like to use it as a customized live USB, allowing me to test system changes without risking corruption. I've read that Ubuntu uses overlayfs for this ...
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I have several computers in my network which (should) all run an identical version of Ubuntu. I have a number of applications, some of which run on only one machine, others of which run on more than ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 running on an AWS instance which is shutdown most evenings and restarted in the morning. Has been running without issue for @6 months Failed to start this morning with the error as shown: ...
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I am running kubuntu 20.04. Looking with mount, with /proc/mounts, and with df shows that the system had used this command: mount -t overlay /cow / -o lowerdir=/filesystem.squashfs,upperdir=/cow/upper,...
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I have release 20.04 LTS. When I boot liveUSB with persistence option, on USB two folders are created (as I understand during first time boot): work, upper. I want to rename them / assign different ...
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I followed this great tutorial on how to enable overlayfs, basically just involves setting the file: /etc/overlayroot.conf to overlayroot_cfgdisk="disabled" overlayroot="tmpfs:swap=1,...
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I have a server which stores the master image for a set of client computers. As of now the clients netboot from the server and use an overlayfs, so any changes do not affect the master image. Changes ...
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I want to install Ubuntu over pxe. With my Thinkpad it works fine. But my Dell doesn't have an Rj45 connector, so I use an usb-C network adaptor. In the startup process, initramfs don't get an IP ...
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I Cannot overlay mount after creating an mount namespace with unshare $ unshare -rm # mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/bin,upperdir=/overlay/upper/bin,workdir=/overlay/work/bin/ /overlay/merged/...
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I have an Ubuntu 16.04 installation mounted using overlayroot as a read only partition. I also have a read write partition on the same drive. I need to be able to change the timezone setting of the PC ...
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I have looked at How do I use OverlayFS? but it doesn't answer my question. I need to install some third party applications and they require /opt to be writable but the device I am running on has /...
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When launching evince, I get this error: EvinceDocument-WARNING **: 10:14:16.337: Error opening directory “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/evince/4/backends”: Permission denied I have already put evince in ...
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I have the following directories: /some/path/dir1/subdir1/* /some/path/dir1/subdir2/* /some/path/dir1/subdir3/* /some/path/dir2/subdir1/* /some/path/dir2/subdir2/* /some/path/dir2/subdir3/* I want to ...
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