Dazed_75 wrote:
> Saturday I was helping Matthew create a Live Ubuntu USB stick. We
> succeeded but for some reason persistence was not working and I could
> not figure out why. I did the same thing here at home and persistence
> works fine. In fact, I think I know the answer now. Mathew was using a
> 16 GB flash drive and wanted the rest of the drive used for persistent
> storage.
>
> The problem was, I believe, that the flash drive was formatted for FAT32
> which has a file size limit of 4GB. It appears the utility to create
> the LiveUSB ubuntu stick creates a special file to use for the "overlay"
> (my term) file system that is merged onto the read only filesystem from
> the Live image. Since we were asking it to make a 14.4GB overlay file
> on a FAT32 partition, that part of the install failed silently and
> persistence was was working.
>
> Mathew, I believe there are several ways to resolve this with the
> simplest being to only ask for 4GB of persistent storage. The rest of
> the stick should still be usable though you may find it handy to make
> the rest a separate partition and mount it within the LiveUSB Ubuntu.
> You should even be able to make the mount persistent.
>
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
That sounds like a possibility all right. TTBOMK though, FAT32 has a 2G
file size limit. :(
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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