On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:35 -0400, Frederick Grose wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > {...} > > > > Think if you use --delete-home you will always have a fresh > > new sugar > > installation upon reboot, as the home directory will be will > > be > > re-created. As a test can you boot SoaS set the name/color, do > > some > > actions that write to the journal, then reboot and note if the > > journal > > entries are preserved. > > > > Jerry > > > > > > Not so. See livecd-iso-to-disk --help > > > > > > ... > > --delete-home > > To prevent unwitting deletion of user files, this option must > > be > > explicitly selected when the option --home-size-mb <size> is > > selected > > and there is an existing persistent home directory on the > > target device. > > ... > > (A non-persistent SoaS can be made by not using the --home-size-mb and > > --overlay-size-mb options.) > > > > Ah I see, should there be a pre-existing /LiveOS/home.img it should be > deleted and recreated when that option is used on the cmdline. Got it, > been away from the livecd stuff for awhile, used to be really active on > the livecd mailing list a few years ago. > > Now with using --format there will be no chance of saving a > pre-existing /LiveOS/home.img for reuse anyway, so no need to delete > home.img before hand. Maybe drop that option? > > Jerry
That is correct. I've updated the wiki. --Fred
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