[SoaS] /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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>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
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