I've seen messages about complete persistence, which is, make sure all changes to the filesystem are persistent.
However, for end user tasks it might be sufficient to offer persistence of the /home directory. Kai Said---------------------------------------- Has the following idea been proposed already? I figure it would be easy to do. During boot, scan for a partition with a given label, say, "fedoralivehome". If present, that partition gets mounted as /home. As a consequence, all user settings and documents are kept across boots. An usb stick could be partitioned to have the second partition as /home. Does this idea make sense? Thanks, Kai Kai said-------------------------------------------- That is essentially the way Centos -5.0 works (worked?) although it saves /etc also. I posted this on this list as a suggestion quite a while ago, but i don't know what happened. I supposed that people smarter than me had better ideas. The CentOS implemention is pretty simple. They put a change in the local startup init script that looks for a set name. aproximatlty CENTOSBACKUP and then untars what is in it. On exit another script in the shutdown sequence asks if you want to save your data and if so where to save it. If you answer yes the script tars /home and /etc into that file. Since it is open software, I guess you could just pirate the parts of the script you need. There must be many holes in this procedure. I am going back in my hole. -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list