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hisham_6c5

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Archiso SQUASHFS

See i want to make a arch recovery cd but without squashfs because i am not going to install it only as a recovery disk

schard

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

Your statement makes no sense. Do you even know what SquashFS is and what its purpose is?

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2ManyDogs

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

Moving to Newbie Corner.

hisham_6c5

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

yes it is a readonly filesystem
used for installation in calamares not in arch linux

schard

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

SquashFS indeed is a compressed read-only file system for live media.
It is used e.g. on the official Arch Linux installation ISO releases to pack the root file system of the live system.
What this has to do with something called "calamares", I have no idea.
For most purposes you can use an unmodified Arch Linux installation medium created from aforementioned ISO as a recovery environment.
What else do you need? Why do you think that SquashFS needs to be avoided?

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ugjka

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

Calamares is a graphical installer a lot of Arch based distributions use, so... i don't know

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seth

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Re: Archiso SQUASHFS

Not related to the OPs premise being complete nonsense, though.
But certainly an explanation…

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