http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Debian_on_USB
I am using this system on 2 production LVS routers now, and on my home router... it still has room for improvement, but it seems to work pretty well :) On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:41 +0200, Lluís Gras wrote: > > I was wondering... > > Does anyone have a good solution for keeping changes to a Debian Live > > system persistent? I see that Casper offers a few options, the most > > tempting being a casper-rw partition on the USB stick that I use to > > boot Debian. The only problem is that it is flash storage and may not > > deal well with being written to all the time. > > I tried to create a jffs2 partition and add that to the unionfs > > manually (unionctl / --add /mnt/root/cow && unionctl / --mode /cow ro); > > the problem here is that a reasonably big jffs2 file system is rather > > slow - too slow to be really useful. > > Eventually, I will probably try to procure an HD based USB drive, but > > in the meantime, I am a bit puzzled. Has anybody found a good way to > > work around this while keeping the whole system portable? > > > > Thanks, > > ~Juergen > > I've been working with similar setup, but with ext2 partition in usb > stick, whithout journaling there are few writes to device. > > It's an option ;-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-live-devel mailing list > Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel