Antix Live with persistence

Challene · 03-14-2020, 06:20 AM

Hello everyone!

I'm using an Antix 19 Live on my USB flash with persistence and it works well. But I have a question -> For example, I have a notebook with windows on it and want to boot from my USB stick. Is there any chance that when I'll remove USB stick with Antix windows will not boot?

ondoho · 03-14-2020, 06:25 AM

Challene · 03-14-2020, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

No.

Thanks for the info

Meh, forgot to ask. How does Persistence work? I understand that it stores all changes in RAM, so basically if I'm choosing a 2GiB space for rootfs, does that mean that I have only 2 GB of RAM available(If I have 4 GB only)? Every time I boot from live USB it will immediately using 2GB RAM for rootfs?

fatmac · 03-14-2020, 09:33 AM

Persistence allows for you to reuse files/programs, they get stored on your disk/pendrive & are linked to on booting up again.

Challene · 03-14-2020, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

Persistence allows for you to reuse files/programs, they get stored on your disk/pendrive & are linked to on booting up again.

But they still will be loaded in RAM every time I boot, right?

boughtonp · 03-14-2020, 11:00 AM

There is AntiX documentation on persistence here: https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix...rsistence.html

Based on those docs, persistent Home is stored on disk (not in RAM), whilst persistent Root is read to RAM at startup and written from RAM on shutdown.

Challene · 03-14-2020, 11:34 AM

Thanks for the info to all of you