What is the right way to use remaster?

[Member rayluo]

Hi Anticapitalista/Dolphin/Oracle/whatever-name-you-go-with and Co.,

Thanks for your effort on maintaining antiX! I love its unique LiveUSB approach since I found it at almost 1 year ago. Since then I’ve been an antiX user using its persistence feature, but have not yet use remaster. So I want to ask a few questions to better understand what is the right way to use remastering.

1. At 4:51 ( https://youtu.be/LpI_a4xPKdM?t=291 ) Does the “General” option mean to squash rootfs alone into new linuxfs, and the “Personal” option mean to squash rootfs+homefs into new linuxfs? But the root persistent, if I understand this (https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/persistence.html#_root_persistence ) correctly, is feature-wise already a superset of home persistent. In fact I can mount and list quite some “/home/demo/*” contents inside my LiveUSB’s /antiX/rootfs. In practice, after I start using Root Persistence i.e. rootfs, I haven’t needed to access my previous Home Persistence i.e. homefs anymore. So why would I ever want to do a Personal remastering if it would indeed also squash my outdated homefs (and potentially overriding the more updated /home/* from inside rootfs?

2. Assuming we stick with “General remastering” to do the rootfs squashing, does the choice at 4:59 (https://youtu.be/LpI_a4xPKdM?t=299 ) mean whether we want to also squash the “/home/*” FROM rootfs INTO new linuxfs? Basically I want to ensure I do NOT remaster my personal settings in Firefox into the remaster outcome.

3. If, however, the (1) “/home/*” WOULD INDEED be persisted in the Root Persistence rootfs BUT (2) it WOULD NOT be remastered, does it mean after a successful remastering which will delete the old rootfs and start a fresh one, I would lose all my personal settings? But that is not what I want. My intention is – if I can borrow your mountain climbing analogy – I want to setup a campsite which might potentially be shared by my teammates/family, I want to NOT leave my personal belongings in that campsite, but at the same time I don’t want to throw away all my belongings, I would still prefer to keep my belongings (presumably in my homefs). How can I get it work?

Regards,
Ray Luo

• This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by rayluo.

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The two options are for whether it is to be your personal remaster, or if you are going to give it to others.

Personal takes into consideration such things as wifi settings, desktop preferences, etc.
The other creates a general installable with all added programs, but no personalized info.

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

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