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Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?



On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:24:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

There's still some charm to Santiago's approach: the device is (nearly?)
read-only after install.

Cheers
 - t

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