live usb persistence

[jack craig]

On 07/17/2009 03:15 PM, Joseph Barney wrote:
> Dunno if this is the place to ask, but how do I get Live USB Fedora
> Persistence? I have a Sandisk Cruzer 8GB.. I'm gonna end up removing that U3
> thing that does nothing for me since I don't always use Windows, and anyhow,
> I can install it when it's FAT32 partitioned, but even when setting the
> persistence file at 3.9GB it never ever has persistence. Is this a bug? I've
> googled for days and find nothing, and even in the forums I find nothing and
> I'm not new to the internet. Been online since 93 but anyhow, was wondering
> if anyone can help me? I get the same results when I was gonna try
> Ubuntu...I never get persistence even when downloading the 4GB casper file
> from pendrivelinux.com.
>
> I'd really prefer Fedora 11 though, and someone in IRC said if I format it
> to ext3 I could use a bigger persistence than 4GB... Is this true? The other
> odd thing is my flash won't work with ext3 anymore. I format it, and it
> actually installed Fedora 11 on there once on the ext3 filesystem but now
> every time I try, and I always use gparted, it says it doesn't recognize
> the  filesystem and that it needs to be formatted. Any help is appreciated.
> I do like Fedora 11 the best and would love to run it off USB since that
> makes it easier to be portable and also since I am into digital photography.
> Thanks!
>
> Joe
>
>    
if you put a label on that file system, does it help? just a wag, ...

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