[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-iso-to-disk ignores persistent home
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Sat Sep 25 15:52:09 UTC 2010
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 17:18:47 +0200,
Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:
> I have a 4GB USB stick available as /dev/sdk, and issue the command:
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format \
> --overlay-size-mb 1000 \
> --home-size-mb 2000 --unencrypted-home \
> /mirror/fc13/releases/Live/i686/Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdk1
>
> After a while this completes, and I try to boot the newly created medium
> using QEMU or VirtualBox.
>
> When the boot and automatic login is completed, there's no sign of the
> persistent /home. It has not been identified and mounted during bootup.
> If the persistent home was created encryoted, i.e. without
> --unencrypted-home, no password unlocking questions are asked during
> bootup.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Does it behave differently if you run this from a USB device instead of QEMU?
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