Fedora live usb:- storing data on the remaining space on the USB

[kalabharath]

Dear friends.

Last time when i have used fedora 9 on a live usb it gives me an ability to mount the same usb (which i used for booting) and store data onto it , however i skipped FC10 and now when i am using FC11 I am unable to do so any more, is there a way to use the same usb drive for storing data ( this enables to share data from systems to systems and OS to OS).

[AntMan]

I have Fedora 11 KDE Live on a USB (formatted as Fat32) and I can access the Live USB fine on my system and save data to it. I can then take it to my WinXP system or Mac and access the data without a problem.

Just be sure you are saving the file to the USB disk and not to the Live Fedora 'home' folder areas and it should work.

[kalabharath]

I am using Gnome desktop and i see no icon whatsoever that shows an usb drive being mounted.

[JEO]

There isn't an icon for it. Open a terminal window, type mount, and you should see it in the list. I think it is mounted on /mnt/live.

[Laura]

Apologies in advance if these are stupid questions- I've used Fedora (shamefully, I haven't upgraded since 8 but that's about to change) for a while but haven't attempted a live USB stick before.

I have a 16GB USB stick I'd like to use for a live copy of Fedora 11. I understand that using this, I can make changes to the OS on the stick (at least add media codecs), save files and so on, which would be most useful- I'd much rather take a USB stick from place to place and use local computers than carry my laptop. However I've read that live USB sticks can't be larger than 2GB. I take it from this thread that this is not the case? Whether the extra storage is mounted as a separate drive within the USB based OS or integrated into it as a 'home' folder, I'd like access to it.

Can this be done/is it done automatically?

When running from the USB drive, would I be able to access a second drive in the machine's other USB port? Or the HDD of the host machine? What about peripherals such as printers, webcams and the like?

Finally, I presume the 32 bit version would run on most host machines, whereas the 64 bit one would require a 64 bit host? If so I'll stick with 32 bit.

Thanks very much,

Laura.

[ryptyde]

Dear friends.

Last time when i have used fedora 9 on a live usb it gives me an ability to mount the same usb (which i used for booting) and store data onto it , however i skipped FC10 and now when i am using FC11 I am unable to do so any more, is there a way to use the same usb drive for storing data ( this enables to share data from systems to systems and OS to OS).

The Fedora 11 LiveUSB automounts on my F11 desktop install and can add data to the freespace. :)

[ryptyde]

Apologies in advance if these are stupid questions- I've used Fedora (shamefully, I haven't upgraded since 8 but that's about to change) for a while but haven't attempted a live USB stick before.

I have a 16GB USB stick I'd like to use for a live copy of Fedora 11. I understand that using this, I can make changes to the OS on the stick (at least add media codecs), save files and so on, which would be most useful- I'd much rather take a USB stick from place to place and use local computers than carry my laptop. However I've read that live USB sticks can't be larger than 2GB. I take it from this thread that this is not the case? Whether the extra storage is mounted as a separate drive within the USB based OS or integrated into it as a 'home' folder, I'd like access to it.

Can this be done/is it done automatically?

When running from the USB drive, would I be able to access a second drive in the machine's other USB port? Or the HDD of the host machine? What about peripherals such as printers, webcams and the like?

Finally, I presume the 32 bit version would run on most host machines, whereas the 64 bit one would require a 64 bit host? If so I'll stick with 32 bit.

Thanks very much,

Laura.

I have made various liveusb installs and if you format the usb device as fat16 you would not be able to make a persistent home or overlay larger than 2 GB. If you format as fat32 no larger than 4 GB for home and/or overlay.

So if you were to use your 16 GB stick formatted as fat32 and installed a live image of say 800 MB and created a encrypted home of 4 GB and a persistent overlay of 4 GB you will still have about half of the device to use for other data storage.

On my Acer Aspire One dual boot with Fedora 11 and WinXP and booting from my Fedora 11 liveusb I can access the WinXP partition that also contains the Acer recovery and also access the F11 boot and install partition. Putting in another usb device in an open slot is automounted and writeable and my webcam works. Haven't used the live usb with my wireless HP printer but have printer access on the F11 hdd install. :)

EDIT: Ok out of curiosity I tested the F11 liveusb with my HP wireless printer and printed a test page. :)

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[CoccoBill]

I have made various liveusb installs and if you format the usb device as fat16 you would not be able to make a persistent home or overlay larger than 2 GB. If you format as fat32 no larger than 4 GB for home and/or overlay.

So if you were to use your 16 GB stick formatted as fat32 and installed a live image of say 800 MB and created a encrypted home of 4 GB and a persistent overlay of 4 GB you will still have about half of the device to use for other data storage.


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HI all :)

I am new to this world, and F11 is my first approach. I thought I would use the LiveUSB option to climb on my steep learning path :D.
I already created a LiveUSB with a 1Gb disk, and it worked fine, but with limited persistent space. Then, I created it on a 16Gb, and I thought I could use as much space as available for the persistent storage. However, I now find out the maximum size would be 4Gb, and this would explain why my PC would not boot from the LiveUSB.
It is easy to create a LiveUSB with a persistent storage of 4Gb, however how do I create an encrypted home of 4Gb, and what is it necessary for ?

Tnx

[JEO]

# livecd-iso-to-disk --help
/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk [--format] [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] [--skipcopy] <isopath> <usbstick device>

As you can see from that help, you would need to add the --home-size-mb <size> parameter and leave off --unencrypted-home to get an encrypted /home. The usefulness of having an encrypted home comes into someone else not being able to read the data in your /home directory without knowing the encryption password if your usb flash falls into their hands.

[kalabharath]

/mnt/live. thats solves my problem