On 12 May 2016 at 13:59, Ron Leach ronleach@tesco.net wrote:
On 12/05/2016 17:36, ToddAndMargo wrote:
You can get more space if you use the command line to create the stick. But you still have a 4 GB persistence limit, but you can get a larger home directory.
Would you say that again, Todd? Are you saying that the live spin, if placed on a USB stick, provides a home directory that persists between use on different machines? And that the persistence is achieved by writing the home directory back onto the stick?
Do any changes outside home also persist? Such as in /etc, or even additional useful dnf installs?
So how persistence works is that it creates an 'overlay' file which tracks all the changes that you do to the files. You can do a dnf update and other changes and it is dealt with on the overlay. The downsides are the following: 1) Your USB key canl wear out quickly as it is not meant to deal with lots of writes and such. 2) Your file writes are very slow because they have to write to the USB key.
Would you like my notes on such?
Does the list permit attachments? I'd be interested in having a look at them. I like the xfce desktop on Fedora for doing quick checks on machines.
regards, Ron
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