meant as a follow up,
after using the right state script for rootfs usage, the scripts where still not working, this however is because i used the mender 2.0.0 overlay to add the state scripts.
mender expects in /etc/mender/scripts also a file called ‘version’ as noted here, this file is not added when using the mender convert overlay as i did, after adding this everything works fine.
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