[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Iain Brown Douglas <
iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:

> ​{...}
>
>
> "...Live USB Creator
>         (This installation method is NOT recommended for LONG-TERM usage
>         of Sugar on a Stick!! Catastrophic data corruption may occur
>         when the USB stick gets full! See why.)"
>
>
> Is this critique regarded as valid?
>

​The advice is valid, especially for the case where a Live USB device will
be used heavily for a period of several months, such as for a SoaS
classroom and personal device with a lot of Activity testing, updating,
media downloading, etc.

Is it the case that liveusb-creator makes *one only* persistent storage
> area, with zero "Home filesystem" as opposed to livecd-iso-to-disk
> creating two?
>

​Yes, a single overlay file​

​in the /LiveOS directory of the device.
fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image
has more of the details.

​Trisquel 7 on a Sugar Toast,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast
has an advantage over SoaS, currently, as it uses the overlayfs,
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
​which doesn't fail as catastrophically when it fills up​.

​
​

>
> With thanks,
> Iain
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Windows
>
>
> > Iain
> >
> > > It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An
> > > .xo wrapper to make it an activity.)
> > >
> > > Tom Gilliard
> > > satellit
> > >
> > > [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator
> >
> >
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