On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:46:36 -0800 (PST), Max Khitrov <maximkh at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm just interested in understanding exactly how m0n0wall
> works, so I want to ask you this...
> 
> Every time you make a change to, say, one of the php files and then
> restart the box, that change is lost. Is this because when m0n0wall
> boots up it simply copies everything from the HD (or whatever you use
> for storage) into memory and then only works with that? IN other words
> the only write operation that is performed is to back-up the config
> file, but everything else is read-only. Is that about right?
> 

it's copied to a memory disk at boot and runs out of RAM.  the CF/HD
is mounted rw only when config changes are made, then mounted back ro.


> In that case, what I wanted to ask is, what if I write a script that
> will mount the hard drive to the currently running system. Would that
> then give me the ability to modify the files and make those changes
> permanent? What I really want to do is just some basic cosmetic
> changes, so I'm thinking why not write a really simply php file that
> will mount the hard drive partition, and then give me an overview of
> all the files there. 

It's not that simple because there are no "partitions" to mount, per se.  

-Chris