[Cialug] System "reset"??

[Paul Gray]

On 02/16/2017 11:59 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Paul Gray wrote:
>
>> In your description of the problem: Everything.
>>
>> When you boot up the system, type mount and see how / is mounted.
>>
> Again, what does this have to do with tempfs?
>
> /dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)

*IF* it was mounted as tmpfs (which was the question), then all changes 
would be lost by design.


Many pi-based devices shove things to tmpfs to minimize writes to SD 
storage.  Some even mount root as tmpfs.

However, your / mounted as ext4 indeed indicates corruption.

-Paul