Paul-

Well put. I actually didn't ask the right question, but you helped :-)

I was really wondering how soon in the boot process I should stuff my changes - and in general, S99 is right. But in my (unstated) case:

1. I was tinkering with mounting over /var/lib/install, and I saw that the dropbear ssh server runs at S20. I've found that creating a symbolic link to a directory that isn't mounted yet is a quick trip to a restore.

So, I needed to wedge in and S20bradhack worked well for that - at least for this application. Of course I've now decided that I'd rather mount over /home, but that's another thread ;-)

2. Mounting swap - I'd think you'd want to do it as soon as possible, right? I ended up doing that at S20, since it seemed safe. Or do you think thats bad? (and again, due to what I've been told, I'm not sure swapping to the MMC is a good idea - at least for expensive MMC cards).