[Bug 552858] New: Live USB Stick destroys second partition
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 Summary: Live USB Stick destroys second partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Live Medium AssignedTo: coolo@novell.com ReportedBy: folkyvolk@gmx.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; de) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01 I downloaded opensuse-11.2 RC2 and followed this tutorial: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick with a 4GB USB stick. I could boot to the live system successfully, but: The second partition was not recognized at all (only from fdisk). After doing mkfs with ext3 on it, and rereading the partition table it was recognized by konqueror as CD-Drive like the first partition. Strange is still, that parted cannot handle it and says it is a "recursive partition". When I now boot the live system, the second partition is not recognized, and seems to be destroyed at boot time. It is also not readable anymore by the system, where it was recognized before (on which I created the image). In the last lines of its boot.msg is something like "Resizing the filesystem on /read-only/fsdata.ext3 to 954560 (4k) blocks" this size varys depending on the size of the second partition I think. A live USB stick makes no practical sense without a working second partition, where I can save my preferences. Another topic is, that networkmanager cannot connect to my wpa-wlan with the live system, but it works, if I change the configuration with yast to ifconfig (iwlagn wlan chipset, model intel wireless wifi link 5100) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. follow http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick 2. try to access second partition in live system -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 User coolo@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c1 Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> 2009-11-06 00:08:14 MST --- you're not supposed to see the 2nd partition. Your live data is written to it. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 User folkyvolk@gmx.de added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c2 H. Hansen <folkyvolk@gmx.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #2 from H. Hansen <folkyvolk@gmx.de> 2009-11-06 09:14:21 MST --- No, my live data is not written to it. Thats why I investigated this thing more. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c3 Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|coolo@novell.com |ms@novell.com Severity|Major |Enhancement --- Comment #3 from Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> 2010-06-21 16:53:52 CEST --- the second partition is not visible to the system, it's used as backstore to put the live data on it. I always wanted to have the 2nd parition as real file system, but Marcus did not like that. But as you're the only one to complain, I don't think it's worth fixing - but maybe marcus has more input. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c4 --- Comment #4 from H. Hansen <cyberbeat@gmx.de> 2010-06-21 16:14:54 UTC --- For me it even not works as a backstore to put the live data on it (all session data is lost). I really like much more the way it is done by other distributions like fedora and ubuntu (casper file system). That would solve all problems. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c5 Marcus Schaefer <ms@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |cyberbeat@gmx.de --- Comment #5 from Marcus Schaefer <ms@novell.com> 2010-06-21 16:56:46 UTC --- if you use a current version of kiwi, for example v4.42 from here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/Appliances you can have a type line like this: <type image="iso" flags="clic" hybrid="true" hybridpersistent="true"/> this will create a live system iso which you can dd on the USB stick. The hybridpersistent option automatically will search on the stick if it is possible to create another linux partition. The process also creates a real filesystem (ext2) which is visible under the linux. The copy-on-write data are written into a file. Coolo you requested that some time ago and we implemented it :-) I'm not aware of any partition which is "destroyed" as mentioned in the report. As I said it is tried to create a new partition with a filesystem on it if that fails the copy-on-write data is written temporary in RAM We also can think of creating a vfat filesystem instead of ext2 so other operating systems can see that as a data container. But I was told that Windows only evaluated the first partition of a USB stick and is not able to look at other partitions which is a bad behavior imho -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c Marcus Schaefer <ms@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Live USB Stick destroys |kiwi: Live USB Stick |second partition |destroys second partition -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552858#c6 Marcus Schaefer <ms@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|cyberbeat@gmx.de | Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #6 from Marcus Schaefer <ms@novell.com> 2010-06-28 09:32:05 UTC --- closing as works for me -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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