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Re: Renaming the Ubuntu system.img to avoid confusion?

 

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Due to it being called system.img when it was actually flashed to the
> Android system partition, the Ubuntu root filesystem image residing under
> /data/system.img can be easily confused with the Android system.img that is
> under /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img _inside_ the Ubuntu system.img.
>
> How about moving away and calling the Ubuntu image ubuntu.img ?
> Here's a patch to the system-image-upgrader script
>
> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/#/c/252/
>
> and one to the initramfs script
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jani/ubuntu/utopic/initramfs-tools-ubuntu-touch/image-name/+merge/222091
>
> They both preserve working with system.img by hardlinking the two names to
> the same file, but prefer ubuntu.img when creating a new image or mounting
> one.

+1

Will try to review them later this week.

Thanks for pushing the changes.

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo


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