How to Store Changes

All changes and tweaks done to the Wolvix system while 'running live' from CD, USB or Frugal install are lost on reboot. Below are two methods for persisting/storing the changes.

Note! Wolvix is designed to be used as a live CD, the ability to persist changes doesn't provide the same functionality as a fully installed system and have some limitations.

Storing to a XFS loop file:

As an easy way to save all changes from one session of Wolvix to another you can unzip one of the included wolvixsavexxx.zip files to the root directory of a writable partition. (for example a hard disk or a pendrive) The wolvixsave.xfs file will be automatically used by Wolvix to persist the changes.

There are three files included on the ISO. You'll find them in wolvix/save/, each one containing an empty loop XFS filesystem:

wolvixsave64.zip .... contains a 64 Mb wolvixsave.xfs file.
wolvixsave128.zip ... contains a 128 Mb wolvixsave.xfs file.
wolvixsave256.zip ... contains a 256 Mb wolvixsave.xfs file.
wolvixsave512.zip ... contains a 512 Mb wolvixsave.xfs file.

How to create a custom wolvixsave.xfs file:

• Where XXXX is the size of the file in MegaBytes. Example: 2048, 1024, 512, 256, 128, 64

• And where /PATH/ is the path to where you like create the file. Example: /dev/hda2/

Storing directly to a hard drive/USB flash drive:

To store your changes directly to a hard drive or USB flash drive you can use the changes=/dev/device/path cheat code.
You need to replace '/dev/path' with your device and directory (optional)

Note! Changes needs be saved to a filesystem that can handle ownership and permissions on files, such as ext3, ext2, reiserfs, xfs, etc. Using a FAT 16/32 filesystem will not work.

Example:

If you want, you can specify a dedicated directory to save the changes in.

Example:

• This will save the changes to a directory called 'mychanges' on hda3.

You can also store the changes in directories several levels deep.

Example:

• This is useful if you want the settings to be stored to a directory in your home directory on an existing Linux install.

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