[mythtv-users] Setup readonly filesystem for Raspberry Pi

[Rajil Saraswat]

On 10/17/2017 02:13 AM, Yann Lehmann wrote:
> Not really, but the frontend writes some files in the
> /home/user/.mythtv folder (themes icons for example). May be your NUC
> was set up rw when you first started the frontend.
>
> On the other hand, some file systems are "friendlier" to flash memory
> than ext4 (JFFS2, F2FS and others), and converting to them seems very
> easy:
>
> http://whitehorseplanet.org/gate/topics/documentation/public/howto_ext4_to_f2fs_root_partition_raspi.html


Right, I did start with an RW file system, let myth do all its stuff and
then changed to an RO file system. I was using the same philosophy on
the pi but it didnt work. I have found anther solution which uses an
overlay filesystem. It works fine on Raspbian Stretch. Details at 
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kidapu/a03dd5bb8f4ac6a4c7e69c28bacde1d3/raw/83c7922c6c7962548ab0eb3666a7618b09ead270/root-ro

Cheers