Bug 27356 - Live 8b1 Persistance is not working
Summary: Live 8b1 Persistance is not working
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: High major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ISO building group
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Reported: 2020-10-04 10:36 CEST by Morgan Leijström
Modified: 2020-10-04 22:34 CEST (History)
2 users (show)

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Full journal of boot, compressed (32.27 KB, application/x-xz)
2020-10-04 11:23 CEST, Morgan Leijström
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Description Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 10:36:42 CEST
iso: Mageia 8 beta 1 live plasma 
Put on stick using isodumper, with check mark for persistance

Bug 27354 - Isodumper crash after creating persistence
 - but i believe it did all it should, because:

When booted to desktop, dolphin left pane show a partition "/(overlay)"
But when i put files there and reboot, files are gone.
Also, system journal is not preserved.
Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 10:58:17 CEST
fdisk -l output seem OK:

Disk /dev/sdd: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Disk model: Voyager GTX     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdd1  *          0   6765123   6765124  3.2G  0 Empty
/dev/sdd2       6765124   6773315      8192    4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sdd3       6815640 250069679 243254040  116G 83 Linux


But it do not show up automatically when i put it in another computer running Mageia 7 Plasma, and i also can not mount it manually:

[root@svarten mnt]# LC_ALL=C mount /dev/sdd3 /mnt/ext
mount: /mnt/ext: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

gparted thinks it is just one iso9660 partiton covering the whole stick, but IIRC that is a known bug.  Diskdrake do not show the stick at all, maybe same underlying bug.


I repeated the tests for two different sticks from different manufacturers.
Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 11:23:39 CEST
Created attachment 11899 [details]
Full journal of boot, compressed

Journal saved to another stick when booted to desktop
Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 11:24:24 CEST

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27354

Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 11:26:55 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Priority: Normal => High

Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 11:32:10 CEST

Assignee: mageiatools => isobuild

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2020-10-04 19:32:45 CEST
I suspect isodumper hasn't formatted your persistence partition. What is the output of

  blkid /dev/sdd3

In Mageia 7, diskdrake doesn't show a Live USB stick, but that should be fixed in Mageia 8.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 4 Morgan Leijström 2020-10-04 22:34:15 CEST
Martin, as so often you are *double* correct! :)

Yes, diskdrake did not execute mkfs.ext 
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27354#c6

So i booted the laptop on another mga8 live stick, and used its diskdrake which as you said can see, format and name that partition on the first stick: ext4, "mgalive-persist".

And now i find persistance do work, including journal.

So now i am heading to get journal on Bug 25181  :)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID


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