Dazed_75 wrote: > Saturday I was helping Matthew create a Live Ubuntu USB stick. We > succeeded but for some reason persistence was not working and I could > not figure out why. I did the same thing here at home and persistence > works fine. In fact, I think I know the answer now. Mathew was using a > 16 GB flash drive and wanted the rest of the drive used for persistent > storage. > > The problem was, I believe, that the flash drive was formatted for FAT32 > which has a file size limit of 4GB. It appears the utility to create > the LiveUSB ubuntu stick creates a special file to use for the "overlay" > (my term) file system that is merged onto the read only filesystem from > the Live image. Since we were asking it to make a 14.4GB overlay file > on a FAT32 partition, that part of the install failed silently and > persistence was was working. > > Mathew, I believe there are several ways to resolve this with the > simplest being to only ask for 4GB of persistent storage. The rest of > the stick should still be usable though you may find it handy to make > the rest a separate partition and mount it within the LiveUSB Ubuntu. > You should even be able to make the mount persistent. > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >
That sounds like a possibility all right. TTBOMK though, FAT32 has a 2G file size limit. :( -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss