On 06/10/2015 04:24 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com
> <mailto:ToddAndMargo@zoho.com>>wrote:
>
> On 06/10/2015 01:23 PM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Apparently, when creating a live USB, if you do not specify
> a "--home-size-mb", the default is zero and you can't save
> any files on your desktop. Huh ...
>
>
> Apparently, it doesn't read your mind, eh? :)
>
> I almost never want persistent storage because I primarily just
> want it to do installs. "Persistant on USB thumbdrives" is a
> bit of an oxymoron... as USB storage (not talking about external
> hard drives but flash) really degrades for me over time... and
> fairly easy to corrupt... or at least that has been my
> experience.
>
> TYL,
>
>
> And persistence does not give space back.
>
>
> Also a misunderstanding. See the newly revised livecd-iso-to-disk man
> page,
>
https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/blob/master/docs/livecd-iso-t...
>
>
> The storage space of any files in the original root filesystem (inside
> the SquashFS
> compressed ext3fs.img file) is not
> recover
> able
> upon deletion, but the storage space
> for newly added
> files, or changes stored in the overlay,
> is
> recoverable
> .
>
> The overlay space
> is allocated once
> as needed
> , so
> the dmsetup status report of
> allocated sectors will not reflect the availability of space once used
> but later deleted.
>
> (The confusion was caused by an error in an earlier version of the man
> page, where
> the overlay was described as a write-once storage method instead of an
> allocate-once
> method. The current version corrects this.)
>
> --Fred
That is good new.
Problem: when I add too many programs to the drive and run out
of space, removeing the programs has no effect. So, it
acts like the original statement in the man page it the correct
one.
Maybe this has something to do with it?
$ rpm -qa \*live\*
liveusb-creator-3.13.2-1.el6.noarch
livecd-tools-13.4.5-1.el6.x86_64
Red Hat states that EL6 will be supported till 2020.
But ...