[SCM] Debian Live manual branch, master, updated. 471ffd5e12af729f010328fd50791fd96025421d
Daniel Baumann
daniel at debian.org
Fri Nov 28 09:39:01 UTC 2008
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 471ffd5e12af729f010328fd50791fd96025421d
Author: Marco Amadori <amadorim at vdavda.com>
Date: Fri Nov 28 10:38:33 2008 +0100
persistence: fixed the "dd" call.
Thanks to Ivan Shmakov <oneingray at gmail.com>, who suggested the simplest and
fastest solution the first time, but I had some problem with the device
between the keyboard and the chair to be able to notice it.
diff --git a/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml b/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
index e6ee94e..75df8e9 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ To make the console keyboard use a swedish layout use
<para>But since live system users, not always can use an hard drive partition, maybe because they aren't allowed or they wan't to repartition a drive, and considering that most USB keys have laughables write speeds, "full" persistence could be also used with just image files, so you could create a file representing a partition and put this image file even on a NTFS partition of a foreign OS, with something like:</para>
<screen>
-$ dd if=/dev/zero of=live-rw bs=1 count=1 seek=1G # for a 1G + 1 byte image file
+$ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1G seek=1 # for a 1GB sized image file
$ /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F live-rw
</screen>
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