On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@zoho.com> wrote:

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This worked:

# livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format --overlay-size-mb 6624 --unencrypted-home Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso /dev/sdc

# ls -al /media/LIVE/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6945767424 Jun 2 14:21 /media/LIVE/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-080e62f1-2731-4790-a1eb-48175d703185

* UNFORTUNATELY: THE PERSISTENCE DOES NOT WORK *

livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format --overlay-size-mb 6624 --unencrypted-home Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso /dev/sdc

Persistence works for me.

Check dmsetup status

and

dmsetup table

See that the live-rw snapshot has been set up on a loop device backed by the overlay file

and not a temporary overlay, which would be the fallback if no overlay was found or it

was unreadable.

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo dmsetup status

live-base: 0 6291456 linear

live-osimg-min: 0 6291456 snapshot 1888/1888 16

live-rw: 0 6291456 snapshot 61432/13565952 248

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo dmsetup table

live-base: 0 6291456 linear 7:3 0

live-osimg-min: 0 6291456 snapshot 7:3 7:1 P 8

live-rw: 0 6291456 snapshot 7:3 7:4 P 8

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo losetup -a

/dev/loop0: [0001]:1557 (/osmin.img (deleted))

/dev/loop1: [1792]:1 (/osmin)

/dev/loop2: [2081]:261634 (/run/initramfs/live/LiveOS/squashfs.img)

/dev/loop3: [1794]:2 (/LiveOS/ext3fs.img)

/dev/loop4: [2081]:261637 (/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-90c95ea3-7acc-4bff-98f6-b9dfbfdebd6e)

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ ls -lA /run/initramfs/live/LiveOS/

total 627712

-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 49005 Jun 3 10:59 livecd-iso-to-disk

-r--r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Jun 3 10:57 osmin.img

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6945767424 Jun 3 11:54 overlay-LIVE-90c95ea3-7acc-4bff-98f6-b9dfbfdebd6e

-r--r--r--. 1 root root 609263616 Jun 3 10:57 squashfs.img

If you don't get similar results, check the system journal for errors on the filesystem.