LiveCD: Persistence is complex to use

[Chip Piller]

According to the wiki found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence
in order for one to use persistence with the LiveCD one is required to format a usb flash drive with a certain filesystem type, give the file system a specific label (casper-rw), insert the usb key prior to booting the LiveCD, and when the bootsplash appears one is expected to hit a certain function key and append the "persistent" option to a kernel boot argument line (this information is not available in a help screen at bootup). This is just crazy, this cannot be the real plan?? Is this just a temporary attempt to enable persistence?

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

No, it's not a temporary attempt.

[livesys (livesys)]

Take a look at Sidux, they have nice scripts for easy setup of persistent.
Ubuntu can surely create something similar.

[Carlo de Wolf (wolfc)]

Why not have persistence option enabled by default?

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

To make it safe, it would maybe be good if the casper-rw somehow is matched against .disk/casper-uuid-generic to make sure it's only mounted together with the rofs it was meant for?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

One can now use usb-creator-gtk (a GUI application in Ubuntu) to easily format a USB drive with persistence enabled so I am setting this bug to Fix Released.