Problem Creating USB with Persistence (antiX -22 64 bit)

[Member Toothless100]

I’m very new to antiX.

Tried to create a live-USB with persistence many times in the past 2 days (full & base versions of antiX 22) from USB drive created with Rufus, but failed each time.

Attempted with several different flash drives of 16GB capacity, thinking maybe there’s something wrong with them (previously had Tinycore, Puppy Linux & Knoppix installed, or just data)

Each time after successful creation of the rootfs file, I got the following error message

Home persistence requested but no homefs file found
Error bash 1048576: unknown operand
Non Fatal Error
Not enough space on device to create homefs file
c – continue
p – power off
r – reboot

Tried “c- continue,” each time, proceeded to create root password, etc, load the live system, and even installed a software with the package installer/manager, but during shut-down, saving the session goes on forever, and had to end it, or resort to hard shut-down.

What did I not do right, or what could be causing this problem? I really like that antiX is a lightweight, very fast and attractive distro. Although I’ve tried a few live medium distros some years ago, I’m still a noob, struggling to understand Linux file systems, the CLI, etc. Would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

• This topic was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Toothless100.
• This topic was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Toothless100.

[Member Robin]

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Welcome!

Did you carefully read the console message you’ve posted? The answer is in it already:

Toothless100 wrote:

Home persistence requested but no homefs file found
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Not enough space on device to create homefs file

With persistence, you need to make sure to set the values requested for rootfs and homefs creation to a size your USB device can take. If you create a rootfs taking the complete free space already, you won’t be able to create a homefs container… Without a homefs container there will be no place on shutdown to store the session, and you’ll loose all changes, no home-persistence functionallity can work then. Your system did a fallback to root-only-persistence when pressing the c key for continue at startup.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Moderator christophe]

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I don’t have Windows, so I don’t know much about Rufus. But the “sure” way is to use the antiX live-usb-maker, to make your live USB, if you want persistence. The reason for this is because the antiX way of implementing persistence is different than the other methods.
Boot your current live USB, then use that system to make a 2nd one, using antiX.
This 2nd live usb should be able to function as designed.

http://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-21/FAQ/persistence.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0mRZh2hiY&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpI_a4xPKdM&t=2s

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[Member Toothless100]

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Thanks, Robin.

That solved the issue … and how silly of me for not paying closer attention to the console messages. Cheers!

[Member Toothless100]

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Thanks for taking the time to reply, Christophe.

Yes, I used Rufus to put antiX on my USB flash drive, booted from it and used antiX live-usb-maker to create the live USB with persistence.

Cheers!

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