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Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?
Date 2021-08-19 04:30 +0200
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> I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago.
> What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation
> with an overlay file system mounted over the root.

FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal Debian install on
a USB key.  That saves the trouble of the overlay filesystem.

And if you want to be able to revert easily to the initial state, then
you can probably get a similar result using an LVM snapshot.


        Stefan

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Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-18 14:40 +0200
  Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-08-18 16:10 +0200
    Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-18 22:00 +0200
  Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopinth@gmail.com> - 2021-08-19 01:20 +0200
    Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-19 04:30 +0200
      Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-19 09:20 +0200
        Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-19 15:50 +0200
    Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-19 07:50 +0200

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