When to use which remastering options?

[Member rayluo]

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

Thank you VERY MUCH for maintaining antiX! Its unique approach on how to boot and maintain an OS purely on USB disk fits my philosophy very well, so I fell in love with antiX since the first day I met her. 🙂 So far I’ve been enjoying a robust and just-works (TM) antiX 17 LiveUSB for months but mainly focus on my own wok, and did not really look into and tweak all the knobs of antiX.

Recently I’m considering to remaster my home and/or root persistence files. I’ve read the doc (https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-17/FAQ/persistence.html#_root_persistence), the video (https://youtu.be/LpI_a4xPKdM), leave 2 questions there, and found no existing topics on that in this forum (https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-search-for-a-solution-when-you-have-a-antix-problem/), so I’m now posting them here too.

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 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 So why would I ever want to do a Personal remastering if it would indeed also squash my outdated homefs?

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.

Thanks in advance for your time reading this.

Regards,
Ray Luo

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