04-02-2015, 06:59 AM
Thanks for the help!
I used dd to copy my casper-rw file to my second partition thus:-
sudo dd if=/media/OC3C-737A/casper-rw of=/dev/sdc2 and then
deleted my casper-rw persistence file.
Booted OK, but now back to a virgin state. Labeled the 2nd partition casper-rw and tried again.
This time booted with all my installed programs. But cannot delete the casper-rw sitting in trash, nor can I resize the 2nd partition. Gparted shows it as 1.87 used and 2.13 unused which obviously is the 4Gb persistence. The used section displays as yellow, beside that is a white section (most likely denoting the unused part) and beyond is a gray section, which is most likely the remainder of the stick. And as I can't delete the casper-rw sitting in trash, the 1st part of the stick still shows it as used.
I'm terribly confused now, so I think I'll regard it as beyond my skill level and go back to the way I know i.e. start with a larger virgin stick, resize, create a 2nd ext2 partition, then reinstall all my programs.
I have made many successful sticks this way but recently gparted started to ruin my sticks when resizing the fat32 partition. Gparted on an old machine makes the sticks perfectly, but using it with the latest OS's seems to destroy them. I suspect something awry with gparted, but who knows.
However with each failure, I learn a little bit more from the kind assistance of forum members. Thanks again!
I used dd to copy my casper-rw file to my second partition thus:-
sudo dd if=/media/OC3C-737A/casper-rw of=/dev/sdc2 and then
deleted my casper-rw persistence file.
Booted OK, but now back to a virgin state. Labeled the 2nd partition casper-rw and tried again.
This time booted with all my installed programs. But cannot delete the casper-rw sitting in trash, nor can I resize the 2nd partition. Gparted shows it as 1.87 used and 2.13 unused which obviously is the 4Gb persistence. The used section displays as yellow, beside that is a white section (most likely denoting the unused part) and beyond is a gray section, which is most likely the remainder of the stick. And as I can't delete the casper-rw sitting in trash, the 1st part of the stick still shows it as used.
I'm terribly confused now, so I think I'll regard it as beyond my skill level and go back to the way I know i.e. start with a larger virgin stick, resize, create a 2nd ext2 partition, then reinstall all my programs.
I have made many successful sticks this way but recently gparted started to ruin my sticks when resizing the fat32 partition. Gparted on an old machine makes the sticks perfectly, but using it with the latest OS's seems to destroy them. I suspect something awry with gparted, but who knows.
However with each failure, I learn a little bit more from the kind assistance of forum members. Thanks again!