On 2023-09-20 22:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-09-20 22:20, James Knott wrote:
On 2023-09-20 16:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Does that Imagewriter install it properly?
It doesn't matter what tool you use to copy the iso. You can use dd, or even cp, or imagewriter.
The partition is created on first boot, not on "install".
Well, that leaves the question of why the partition is there, but not "cow".
Please post what "lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,PARTFLAGS,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,ALIGNMENT /dev/sdb" said.
Notice that "cow" is only the label, but it refers to the technology used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write Copy-on-write (COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing[1] or shadowing,[2] is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources.[3] If a resource is duplicated but not modified, it is not necessary to create a new resource; the resource can be shared between the copy and the original. Modifications must still create a copy, hence the technique: the copy operation is deferred until the first write. By sharing resources in this way, it is possible to significantly reduce the resource consumption of unmodified copies, while adding a small overhead to resource-modifying operations. That ext4 partition is writeable, and stores the changes done to the read only image from the CD, so to speak. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))