Hi all,
Persistent boot option works and with grml2usb I have not needed to change the other related partitions. You may need to remove the "=nofile" as that was removed in upstream.
Note; Some of docs you find on web are proposals and may not be in upstream or grml-autoconfig (http://live.debian.net/devel/rfc/persistence/).
persistent-encryption=luks works in daily snapshot I am testing. This can keep live-rw and home-rw more private and secure. Think lost USB. I do not expect GRMLCFG to support luks.
Be aware live-rw and home-rw at this testing do not do compression. The docs indicate live-sn and home-sn will but I have not gotten to testing that feature.
The information at http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency is good.
--- On Mon, 2/27/12, Stefan Weiss weiss@foo.at wrote:
From: Stefan Weiss weiss@foo.at Subject: [Grml] Updating USB stick with persistency option? To: grml@ml.grml.org Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:24 AM Hello.
I'm trying out to the persistency feature for the first time. I had a 4GB USB stick lying around, so I'm following the example in the wiki more or less verbatim.
What I'm wondering is, can this USB stick be updated when the next Grml version is released?
Yes as long as bootable partiton is sized large enough.
Up until now, there was never any user data on the stick (or CD), but now there could be something worth preserving in $HOME. I'm not sure how exactly the persistency snapshots work, but I guess simply running grml2usb with the new ISO won't be enough.
grml2usb will only affect the bootable partition and mbr. If you create a completely new stick you will have to create others manually.
It's no big deal if an update isn't possible. I'll expect there will only be a couple of shell scripts and .debs in my $HOME, and I can easily transfer them to a different partition before updating. If that's the case, should I wipe the home-rw, live-rw, and GRMLCFG partitions when I install the new ISO?
I have not needed to wipe but do need to update things for newer packages in release.
Thanks, stefan _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@ml.grml.org http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/