On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, ToddAndMargo <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-to-disk.pod

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