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Lockdown mode fixed for overlayfs

September 26, 2025 — BarryK

From EasyOS 7.0.11, the default layered filsystem is overlay instead of aufs. This has broken lockdown-mode, as reported by tammi806:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=156807#p156807

Lockdown mode is great, it needs to be fixed. For those new to EasyOS, here is an introduction:

https://easyos.org/user/ultra-secure-web-browsing.html

I found out what is wrong. The 'init' script in the initrd was not creating the temporary folder, required by overlay, in the correct place. Lockdown is now working.    

Tags: easy