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on an Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) working as Webserver I have installed overlayfs (I did already some months ago on another machine). On both machine I have:

overlayroot="tmpfs:swap=1,recurse=0"

But on the new one, boot fails with

overlayfs: missing working dir

How do I set the working dir parameter?

Thanks

Stephan
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Hopelessly late I know, but just in case someone else should wonder - workdir should be set for you by /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/overlayroot. Maybe you need to regenerate your initramfs?

The default is /media/root-rw/overlay-workdir/_ and you can set it manually by adding workdir=... as an option to the overlayfs mount command/fstab entry.

lane
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