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#1 2011-10-31 17:12:11

walterjwhite
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Persistent Storage on Archiso

Hi all,

I am using the Archiso project and it works really well.  However, I'd like to be able to persist my changes to the system on reboot, is there a way to accomplish that?  I am booting to a USB thumb drive.

Secondly, how can I make the ISO image of a fixed size?  Would padding the image with the amount of space I want the image to take up work (mkisofs -pad # bytes)?



Walter

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#2 2011-10-31 23:50:53

djgera
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Re: Persistent Storage on Archiso

Boot with cow_label=FS_LABEL or cow_device=/dev/DEVICE
See the README for other options [#1]

An ISO with a fixed size for what?

[#1] http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.g … README#n38

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#3 2011-10-31 23:55:25

walterjwhite
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Re: Persistent Storage on Archiso

Hi,

That is perfect.  I am copying it to a USB key, so what I will do is instead generate a fixed size for COW device.


Thanks much,

Walter

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#4 2013-11-06 16:44:52

mickours
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Re: Persistent Storage on Archiso

djgera wrote:

Boot with cow_label=FS_LABEL or cow_device=/dev/DEVICE
See the README for other options [#1]

An ISO with a fixed size for what?

[#1] http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.g … README#n38

This README file is empty! Is there another place where I can find complete instruction (wiki, forum, blog...)?

Thanks

Michael

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#5 2013-11-06 16:47:40

karol
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Re: Persistent Storage on Archiso

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#6 2013-11-06 18:02:55

teateawhy
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Re: Persistent Storage on Archiso

Another solution is to install arch to the usb drive:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _a_USB_key

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