On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Rémi Pincent <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Since systemd 235, timesyncd stamp file has been moved to > /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock . As my /var partition is RO is created a > symlink to a clock file located in a RW partition, I got this error : > > *Nov 05 16:05:44 rpi-home-master systemd[12023]: > systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in > /var/lib: Read-only file system* > *Nov 05 16:05:44 rpi-home-master systemd[12023]: > systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed at step STATE_DIRECTORY spawning > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd: Read-only file system* > > I've also tried to create a /var/lib/systemd/timesync symlink to a > timesync folder in a RW partition. I get this error : > > *Nov 05 16:37:42 rpi-home-master systemd[17668]: > systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in > /var/lib: Not a directory* > *Nov 05 16:37:42 rpi-home-master systemd[17668]: > systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed at step STATE_DIRECTORY spawning > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd: Not a directory* > > How can I have timesyncd clock file in a separate partition? > > If you are like me and absolutely had to have all r/o physical filesystems and tmpfs for everything else, I switched to chrony and linked adjtime to a r/w tmpfs at boot. The issues I had with ntp went away and I no longer had to worry about wearing out my SD cards. -Greg
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