Public bug reported: I'm not sure it's the correct place to report this...
When I boot from the 19.10 live image on a USB stick (at least my USB stick, on my computer), the live system creates and formats an additional partition on my stick, labeled "casper-rw" that's mounted read-write on /var/crash and /var/log. Passing the "nopersistent" parameter prevents that behaviour. I tried on a specially crafted disk image on qemu comprising the unmodified live image, followed by 1 GiB of zeroes, to simulate a USB stick with some remaining space. I didn't have that problem with the 19.04 live image, on the exact same hardware. Could it be that the system now interprets my USB stick as non-removable media, hence assuming persistence as the default, or is everyone else affected ? Defaulting to persistence poses problems : - integrity checks on the USB stick fail, since it the partition table has been modified - Despite passing the "toram" parameter, the USB stick can't be ejected without performing additional operations ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: casper (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Nov 13 03:38:19 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-22 (51 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416) SourcePackage: casper UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-11-01 (11 days ago) ** Affects: casper (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852368 Title: 19.10 live image has persistence enabled by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1852368/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs