Comments on: Fedora USB Persistant Overlay Explained

By: Travo.Cadavo

Travo.Cadavo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:58:24 +0000

I would think that this would work since Fedora and CentOS are based on RHEL, though your mileage may vary.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:25:52 +0000

Will the overlay work with other iso distributions such as CentOS 5.4 live CD?

By: Travo.Cadavo

Travo.Cadavo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:50:55 +0000

You are right about the comments, they are before I got akismet installed properly.

I am unaware of how to look at the contents of the persistent storage but I am sure that there is a way to mount the filesystem within a Linux system perhaps something like this will work,
mount -o ro /dev/live /mnt/live
Where in theory you could use the name of the file instead of the /dev/live directory.

As far as I know when you create using the live-usb-creator it destroys the original overlay, but if you go the “old school” or “manual” way of creating the live usb you should be able to manually specify a persistent file.

Hope that helps.

By: skierpage

skierpage — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:40:23 +0000

Unlike your other (spam?) commenters, this explanation isn’t detailed. a) How can I examine the contents of the persistent overlay on my SD/USB card (seems to be /LiveOS/overlay-MEDIANAME-XXXX-XXXX ) on another PC? b) If I install a new .iso, will Live USB Creator preserve my existing persistent overlay?

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