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This is an old revision of HowToAvoidLoadingSaveFile made by darkcity on 2013-01-20 07:44:09.
How To Avoid Loading SaveFile
When there is a single SaveFile pup savefile Puppy will automatically find and load it. To avoid this there are at least two methods, see below. This applies to frugal installations.
Reasons to avoid loading Savefile
- To make a fresh pup save file when you shutdown/reboot.
- To back up the savefile, which can be done by copying as long as it isn't in use (mounted).
- To mount the savefile to check its contents.
- To repair the savefile using e2fsck
Method 1 - Make Puppy give you the choice of savefile
1. Make a dummy save-file.
For example,
if original save-file is called lupusave-name.2fs
make a file blank dummy file, calling the new one something like - lupusave-dummy.2fs
Ensure that the naming convention is retained, for Puppy Lucid 5.2x - lupusave-<name>.<2/3>fs
2. Reboot, Puppy it will give the opinion of which save-file to load, and also the opinion 0 - not to load any save-file.
Method 2 - Prevent Puppy loading any SaveFiles
Depending on your installation, if you have the Puppy boot screen
it allows different settings to be used:-
puppy pfix=ram
If you are using a bootloader such as Grub, you can add another option, and configure it to use this parameter.
