On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 13:48 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > We're going to spend some of our remaining budget on a swag refresh, and as > part of that, we're getting some shiny new USB sticks, and partly > considering the recent discussion about making it easy for new users to try > without committing, we're getting ones with decent speed and quality and > room for a persistent overlay. > > It has been approximately a decade since I made such an image. Does anyone > have a recipe for creating one with persistent storage (and possibly a > separate home filesystem, or however that should be set up on btrfs?) AFAIK it *should* still work as documented on the old wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB&oldid=504045#Command_line_method:_Using_the_livecd-iso-to-disk_tool_.28Fedora_only.2C_non-graphical.2C_both_non-destructive_and_destructive_methods_available.29 "To include a persistent filesystem for /home, use the --home-size-mb parameter. For example: su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 2048 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-1.1.iso /dev/sdX" This will create a 2 GiB filesystem that will be mounted as /home each time the stick is booted, allowing you to preserve data in /home across boots. To enable 'data persistence' support - so changes you make to the entire live environment will persist across boots - add the --overlay- size-mb parameter to add a persistent data storage area to the target stick. For example: su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 2048 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-1.1.iso /dev/sdX" where 2048 is the desired size (in megabytes) of the overlay. The livecd-iso-to-disk tool will not accept an overlay size value greater than 4095 for VFAT, but for ext[234] filesystems it is only limited by the available space." I have no idea when is the last time anyone tested this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
