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 > -- > livecd mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
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