On a running Linux box, you should be able to plug the USB stick into a USB port, and mount the squashfs filesytem the same way that you can mount an ISO image.
Once you have mounted the squashfs image, copy what you want to another directory on the running machine. Just Google for 'squashfs mount' HTH Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, James Heather wrote: > To: [email protected] > From: James Heather <[email protected]> > Subject: [Fedora-livecd-list] mounting a persistent overlay > > Can anyone tell me how to mount the squashfs / persistent overlay on a > live USB stick, without booting it up? > > Context: I gave someone a live USB stick with something > in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to log some diagnostics when he booted it up on a > machine in China. Now I want to get the logs off the USB stick, but I am > just realising in my amateurish way that when I boot it up I will > overwrite the logs... Such is the problem with operating under time > pressure... > > James > -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
