[Fedora-livecd-list] a boot option to remove the persistent layer and create a new one

[Jeremy Katz]

On Friday, March 13 2009, ???????? ???????????? said:
> if one used more than the size of the persistent layer,
> system becomes corrupted and unusable
> 
> one then can remove the layer to restore it to "factory defaults"
> 
> but telling people to create a new layer is a but difficult for end users

If you boot with 'reset_overlay', it resets the overlay.
 
[snip]
> resetPersistentHome and resetOverlay should simply check the size of the
> img file we want to rest
> then remove it then create a new one with the same size

Resetting the persistent home seems a little more questionable.  Since
it's just a filesystem image and not the weird dm-snapshot, it's a less
straight-forward call of how/when it could get corrupted and then need
any sort of resetting

Jeremy