Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2015, Fernando Cassia sent: > Thanks for the reply. I choose to stop using so-called "persistent > storage" because it eventually goes FUBAR. Something about the loop > device if I remember correctly. The issue being that all is well until > you fill up all available storage space. Then the "persistent storage" > partition becomes "damaged" and unmountable. I lost quite a few > folders full of work that way, that's when I decided that was useless. That sounds like a problem I had on my old Amiga, more than a decade ago, where due to some programmer's maths errors, it'd try to fill a disc to 101% capacity. Though, in this case, I suspect it's more to do with flash drives losing capacity, over time, as it wears out, and no file system being developed in mind of this (so that a reasonable large amount of space is always required to be kept free). Personally, if I was to run a live OS from a USB stick. I'd be inclined to use two. One for the OS, another for my data. I had tried running from a USB connected hard drive, but I would find that things would get stuffed up after a while. I've come to the conclusion that USB hardware is far from reliable. Apart from hard drives in cases getting hot, and bumped about, Linux seems rather good at creating data corruption when there are several drives in use (internal and/or external). I've experienced this over several different systems (motherboards, and drives, and types of drives). You'd be doing things, then become aware that a drive wasn't available any more. Copying a bunch of files would stall, or would become a randomised mess (I learnt to always copy, never move files). Loading a program would stall or simply fail. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. Windows, it's enough to make a grown man cry! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
