On 2015-01-13 15:30, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
On 13 January 2015 at 14:18, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
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Yeah, sums things up nicely.
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- Repartition the flash drive and install Linux on one partition while using VFAT on the other for general use (with Windows PCs). No longer do ISO. Either do a raw image in susestudio, or forgo opensuse and use debootstrap (I have a Debian workstation).
There is a (small?) caveat. Flash sticks are actually optimized for FAT, meaning that they are prepared for a higher number of writes in the initial area of the stick, where the FAT is, than in the rest of it, the data area. By placing two partition the second one is beyond that area; thus the boot area should be the second partition. This also affects formatting in any other filesystem types, of course. And I have no data on exactly how they do this customization; I read a report on this some years ago, so I know it is true.
- Forgo plain user access to the FAT32 file system. Instead, create a file on that system and use that as persistent storage witn an ext2 file system in it. When I want to exchange files with Windows systems, just use the root user to copy them to the FAT32 file system
Well, the openSUSE lives, and probably the susestudio lives, I don't know, create on the first boot a persistent writeable partition on the rest of the stick, using ext4, I think. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)