Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] /dev/live, /mnt/live, LiveOS/home.img unavailable in Fedora-17

[Frederick Grose]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Frederick Grose
> <fgrose(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:
> >
> >> Please note that the current Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-Live images lack
> >> some traditional Live CD/USB features.
> >>
> >> See this bug report.
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740280
> >>
> >> {...}
> >>
> > 
The --home-size-mb NNN option of livecd-iso-to-disk produced a
> >> /LiveOS/home.img
> >> filesystem for the liveuser's home directory.
> >>
> >> This feature made possible the --encrypted-home option, which would
> >> secure the privacy of a user directory on a Live USB system.
> >>
> >> The home.img filesystem was also read/write/delete without consuming the
> >> LiveOS overlay.  This is important for non-short-term Live USB deployments,
> >> such as Sugar on a Stick, where overlay exhaustion can be a significant
> >> problem.
> >>
> > 
>   {...}
> >>
> > 
Adam Williamson has patched fedora-live-base.ks, but
testingFedora-17.TC5-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
shows that a home.img filesystem is not mounted.

Adam's patches need to be applied to fedora-live-mini.ks in order to fix Sugar
on a Stick and any other builds based on fedora-live-mini.ks

Comment added to bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740280#c47

         --Fred