You've understood correctly. Changes anywhere that's under / should
persist, except for temp-style
directories: /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/cache/yum.

Something else must be going wrong. I think we'll need more details to
work out what.

James

On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 10:50 +0100, Tim Coote wrote:

> Hullo
> I'm trying to use livecd to test fedora upgrades non-destructively. To make 
> this work, I really need to be able to use the persistent overlay to fix 
> drivers. I'm using the standard command: 
> 
> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 2047 /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1
> 
> However, this is not working as I'd expect. If I boot from the resulting usb 
> drive and change the configuration (eg to enable sshd), then the changes are 
> lost on reboot.
> 
> Have I misunderstood how persistent overlays are supposed to work - I'd 
> interpreted the documentation to mean that the overlay can persist changes 
> from /, as well as just providing a persistent overlay to /home?
> 
> tia
> 
> Tim
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