NAME

cloneToSda - clone the Freeduc system from a live session to the machine's hard disk

SYNOPSIS

cloneToSda

DESCRIPTION

cloneToSda allows one to clone the core of a live Freeduc system to the local machine's hard disk. All data on the hard disk will be erased, four partitions will be created on the hard disk

/dev/sda1

The first partition (which weighs some gigabytes) contains a bootable iso-9660 filesystem, so the core of Freeduc is in read-only mode.

/dev/sda2

The second partition is a hidden NTFS partition, inside the iso-9660 partition, to feature iso-hybrid boot properties. This partition contains necessary files to boot in EFI mode.

/dev/sda3

A vestigial vfat partition. For pluggable disks, it does make sense to provide a vfat partition, which can contain files reachable from Windows and Mac machines. When the same system is used on a hard drive, allocating disk resource to this partition does not make sense.

/dev/sda4

This partition bears a EXT4 filesystem. It is called the "persistence" partition, and some of its directories are mounted in overlay mode: that means that every changes to the original system are written there.

If one erases the directory rw/ near the root of this partition, all persistence data are removed. One important file must be kept in its root directory: "persistence.conf" defines how overlays are mounted. By default, this file defines one single overlay for all the system.

AUTHOR

Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

10/04/2020

cloneToSda