disabling Aufs

Call me an anal geek, but I don't like software putting files where it wants to. I want to decide where files go and when. I want my system files on the SSD and data files on my memory card. Since I am trying out different operating systems, I don't want to worry about my data getting overwritten. Or even better, when restoring or upgrading I can pop out the memory card and have no concern for accidental deletion.

How can you disable Aufs to get rid of this issue.

 

Hi. Same here.

I disabled aufs, and now I just use my "external" SSD the way it was intended! 8-D

But I'm no programmer, so it's more like a butcher solution:
as root, in a terminal I renamed the conf file for aufs:

#code===================================
sudo su
mv /etc/aufs.act /etc/aufs.bak
mv /etc/macles.cfg /etc/macles.cfg.bak
touch /etc/aufs.act
touch /etc/macles.cfg
#===================================/code



The touch command creates an empty file, so linpus is find it and does nothing.


One reboot, and it worked for me...
Then I had to clean the duplicate folders on the SSD, re-locate my files, create some symlinks so, by example, my mp3 physically located on the external SSD are seen in my /home/user/Music folder.
Now I'm happy, I have extra space on my left SSD, and I can extract it without fearing some mess in my home directory.

Be aware that I've done this weeks ago, so maybe I have forgotten some additionnal steps. And I don't take no responsability whatsoever, but will gladly answer questions about it.

Hope it helped
TheTilde

 

Ah what's more, I have yet never installed the last Acer update (Live Update) asking to bring a patch for the storage manager....
I think that it'll break my mod.
Anyway, it's no too hard to change back.

TheTilde

 

Thanks for the help.

It's clear what the Aufs file does, but what does the "macles.cfg" do/control?

 

The macles.cfg (is he the same macles as in "http://macles.blogspot.com/" ?) surely deals with aufs... but I'm too thick to understand how

TheTilde