[SCM] Debian Live manual branch, master, updated. 7f599ac97a6dea782680581f065ecddd616eaa84

[Marco Amadori]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 7f599ac97a6dea782680581f065ecddd616eaa84
Author: Marco Amadori <marco.amadori at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 26 20:20:52 2008 +0100

    Faster and cleaner "dd" image creation example.

diff --git a/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml b/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
index f09d1a5..e25a9c0 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ 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=1024k count=1 seek=1k # for a 1G image file
-# mkfs.ext2 -F live-rw
+$ dd if=/dev/zero of=live-rw bs=1 count=1 seek=1G # for a 1G + 1 byte image file
+$ /sbin/mkfs -t ext2 -F live-rw
 </screen>
 
 <para>Then copy the <command>live-rw</command> file in a writable partition and reboot with "persistent" boot parameter.</para>

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