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cannot create wheezy live-system with persistence

Hi

I created a wheezy live-system on a flash-disk.
I followed http://live.debian.net/manual-3.x/ht...al.en.html#538.
I added "persistence" in "syslinux/live.cfg", so I have:

Code:

label live

menu label Live Persistent

kernel /live/vmlinuz

append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live config persistence quickreboot noeject

I also created a second partition on this flash disk with ext4 file-system and label "persistence" and created live-persistence.conf file by doing:

Code:

# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /mnt

# echo "/home" >> /mnt/persistence.conf

# umount /mnt

But this second partition is not mounted automatically during the startup.
What's wrong?

I don't know what version you are using but this bug claims to have been fixed.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/.../msg00175.html

Could be you should report this problem.

It is a BUG:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685270

Pin live-boot and live-boot-initramfs-tools from sid to /config/packages.chroot and created new hdd binary.img on my wheezy solved this problem!

live-persistence.conf

The configuration file on the persistence partition needs to be named live-persistence.conf not persistence.conf

I got it working a couple of months back, then forgot how I did it myself. So when I went to test our R4W 2013 (Replacement for Windows) on a flash drive I couldn't get it to work either, even though I know it should. After renaming persistence.conf to live-persistence.conf it worked perfectly.

So it should have been:

Quote:

# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /mnt
# echo "/home" >> /mnt/live-persistence.conf
# umount /mnt

or in mny case, since I'm using full persitence:

Quote:

# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 /mnt
# echo "/ union" >> /mnt/live-persistence.conf
# umount /mnt

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomiro (Post 4876182)

According to:

http://live.debian.net/manual/stable...al.en.html#529

Code:

# mkfs.ext4 -L persistence /dev/sdb1

# mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

# echo "/home" >> /mnt/persistence.conf

# echo "/var/cache/apt" >> /mnt/persistence.conf

# umount /mnt

I've tried and it works well.

>>During the first boot the contents of /home and /var/cache/apt will be copied into the persistence volume, and from then on all changes to these directories will live in the persistence volume. Please note that any paths listed in the persistence.conf file cannot contain white spaces or the special . and .. path components. Also, neither /lib, /lib/live (or any of their sub-directories) nor / can be made persistent using custom mounts. As a workaround for this limitation you can add / union to your persistence.conf file to achieve full persistence. <<