Root space on Live-USB

[Member hamster]

Dear forum members,

I have a question regarding the Antix (persistence-all) Live-USB stick.

I used a 32 GB stick, gave root around 10 GB and allocated the rest to home. All fine and all works well. After first boot and updates the root partition was at around 9 GB, still so far so good. I understand that all updates and root installs affect this remaining 9 GB space. However, I realized that – even if I don’t install programs and run any updates – the root partition gets smaller and smaller (just by 30-40 MB) every time I shut down and save the persistence. I know its not much, however, I intend to use this Live-stick for the next 1-2 years and I’m afraid I might run out of root space in a few months if that goes on.

Question 1: what could cause the constant slowly-but-surly root space usage increase? APT-Catch? Temp files? Any idea? I don’t like tools such as Bleachbit to clean out the system because I am afraid to screw up things as it has happened to me before.

Question 2 (not related to the above topic): In my home partition (where the folder Documents, Downloads, Videos etc. are) there is folder “Live-USB” which shows me the same available space as in home. I could, but I don’t save files in there, just in my home directory. However, what happens to files which are saved there? Can they be accessed by someone if they have my usb stick (my live-stick uses system encryption). Why is this Live-USB-folder there and what’s its purpose? I don’t get that.

Thanks for helping me out. Cheers
Patrick

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi Patric,
regarding using a stick for years, better to have more than one and keep a snapshot.
Please do not mess with Bleach bit, you may otherwise have unwanted fun and games.
My experience with 32 GB stick was that depending on usage it will run out of root space all too
quickly. But my usage case may be very different to yours..
Sweet spot for price seems to be 64GB, plenty of space and usually faster than smaller stick

Keep the stick up to date, after any bigger changes do a remaster. You may want to remove old
root setup once you are sure the stick is booting ok and stable. Pretty sure there is a post on
that here in the forum.

The live USB storage area is just that, persistent save area even if you are not using the persistent
setup options. I assume that area is also encrypted, for an answer on that either please wait for others
or plug the stick to a running system and test for yourself. Something I would always recommend.

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