[Fedora-livecd-list] Persistance

[ToddAndMargo]

On 04/04/2014 08:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 13:01:39 -0700,
>    ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>> I love my Fedora Live USB a little too much.  Can't get enough
>> space to add everything I want to it.
>>
>> Do you know of a way to overcome the 4GB persistent
>> storage restriction?  ("overlay-live-xxxxx" I presume.)
>>
>> I am trying to do this:
>>
>> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 7194
>> /home/kvm/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso  /dev/sdc1
>>
>> But get told overlay can only be 2048 max.
>
> That might be because the overlay file is normally going to be on an FAT
> file system. Though I think I saw a bug somewhere that said the limit
> really should be less that 4GiB.
>
> How large is your device? You might consider doing a normal install to
> it if you are going to be doing updates and keeping it for a long time
> without refreshing. Note that you can't normally update the kernel in a
> live image. So for long term use a normal install is better, assuming
> you have the room.

Hi Bruno,

The current stick I am using is 16 GB.

I use the Live USB as rescue disk at my customer sites (mostly
to save Windows computers).  I had though of installing directly,
but have been told that I can not expect that /dev/sda will
always be the stick.

-T

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