I ended up following Mikes? advice and used ext3 instead of ext2 for both the casper-rw and the home-rw partitions. I also followed the instructions for removing the eject cd message and the instructions here ( http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/ubuntu/custom-livecd.htm) to customize the installation. I updated all the software and adjusted the packages. I've been using this setup for almost a month without problems on both my 8Gig verbatim and my 2G SanDisk Cruzer. I use both almost daily and just checked them and they're error free.
I've made a 1G partition for the squash filesystem (I've loaded quite a few extras) and on the 8G stick a 700M casper-rw partition and the rest of the device is for my home-rw partition. On the 2G stick I have a 300M casper-rw and the rest (700M) for my home partition. Hope this helps. (I should check my email a little more often:-) Ron On Jan 9, 2008 2:40 PM, jpolizo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I am running into a variant of this same problem. I installed > 7.10 on a USB drive and it works great when using just the live CD mode. > When I use persistence (second partition is ext2) it works great the > first time I boot and then it steadily degrades after that. In one > case, I had a corrupted /etc/sudoers file and when I looked at this on > another machine the file had the contents of mtab stuffed right into the > middle of it. In other cases it has blown up the X configuration so > that X cannot start. > > No matter how bad the persistent mode boot gets, it wall always boot > fine in "live" mode. > > If I do an fsck on the casper-rw drive, I get lots of errors after a > reboot. If I fix the errors and then delete everything on the casper- > rew drive, it will boot again fine in "persistent" mode though obviously > that's not very persistent. > > I've also tried 'sync' before a shutdown of the system but that doesn't > seem to help. I also tried doing a suspend and unsuspend and that > seemed to work fine with no corruption. > > -- > failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- failure to umount local filesystems - gutsy tribe 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125702 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
