FYI: direct changes to the /overlay aren't noticed by the kernel, you have
to reboot first. I can't say that I'm an expert, I've just poked around at
it. I just deleted the whole directory (IE: rm -rf
/overlay/etc/uci-defaults). Upon reboot the entire directory is reverted to
the contents of /rom.

-- 
David P.


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>wrote:

>
> David Personette <dperson@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > you have made a change, then it's read from the overlay. A change
> that you can
>     > make is deleting a file that exists on the /rom image, and that can
> be stored
>     > on the overlay as well (the file will be not be visible in the
> merged /). You
>     > can purge changes that you have made by removing the corresponding
> file(s) and/
>     > or directory(s) in the /overlay filesystem.
>
> How do I see/delete the mark in the /overlay that marks the file in the
> /rom as
> deleted?
>
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