<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Iain Brown Douglas </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:iain@browndouglas.plus.com" target="_blank">iain@browndouglas.plus.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">{...}</div><br>
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"...Live USB Creator<br>
(This installation method is NOT recommended for LONG-TERM usage<br>
of Sugar on a Stick!! Catastrophic data corruption may occur<br>
when the USB stick gets full! See why.)"<br>
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Is this critique regarded as valid?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">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.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Is it the case that liveusb-creator makes *one only* persistent storage<br>
area, with zero "Home filesystem" as opposed to livecd-iso-to-disk<br>
creating two?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">Yes, a single overlay file</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">in the /LiveOS directory of the device.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image">fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image</a></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">has more of the details.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline">Trisquel 7 on a Sugar Toast,</div></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font color="#000099" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast</a></font><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">has an advantage over SoaS, currently, as it uses the overlayfs,</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt</a><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153)">which doesn't fail as catastrophically when it fills up.</div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,153);display:inline"></div></span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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With thanks,<br>
Iain<br>
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[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Windows" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Windows</a><br>
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> Iain<br>
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> > It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An<br>
> > .xo wrapper to make it an activity.)<br>
> ><br>
> > Tom Gilliard<br>
> > satellit<br>
> ><br>
> > [5] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator</a><br>
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