|
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)volatile-root.serviceOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)
systemd-volatile-root.service, systemd-volatile-root - Make the root
file system volatile
systemd-volatile-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-volatile-root
systemd-volatile-root.service is a service that replaces the root
directory with a volatile memory file system ("tmpfs"), mounting the
original (non-volatile) /usr inside it read-only. This way, vendor
data from /usr is available as usual, but all configuration data in
/etc, all state data in /var and all other resources stored directly
under the root directory are reset on boot and lost at shutdown,
enabling fully stateless systems.
This service is only enabled if full volatile mode is selected, for
example by specifying "systemd.volatile=yes" on the kernel command
line. This service runs only in the initial RAM disk ("initrd"),
before the system transitions to the host's root directory. Note that
this service is not used if "systemd.volatile=state" is used, as in
that mode the root directory is non-volatile.
systemd(1), systemd-fstab-generator(8), kernel-command-line(7)
This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service manager)
project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩. If you have a bug
report for this manual page, see
⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#bugreports⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git⟩ on 2017-07-05. If you dis‐
cover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or
you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail
to man-pages@man7.org
systemd 234 SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)
Pages that refer to this page: kernel-command-line(7), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7), systemd-fstab-generator(8)