Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny View Post
You should look at posting from user utu...
Capricorny refers to this, I think:
http://knoppix.net/forum/threads/306...ht=persistence
I still use this method, only now I define a similar function in ~/.bashrc,
rather than /etc/profile.

Since Knoppix 7.6.1 initially comes with both KNOPPIX and KNOPPIX1 cloops,
my current unique cloop compacted addition is KNOPPIX2.
I generally don't require more than one additional cloop to capture all
my unique stuff. My KNOPPIX2 is about half the size of Klaus K's KNOPPIX1,
for example.

Operating this way protects me from over-writing that
persistence material which I have converted to cloop form. It does not
protect me from overwriting new persistence material in read-write
reiserfs form.

There still remains an ever-present danger of spoiling by filesystem
corruption, either or both KNOPPIX partitions by inadvertently
removing the LiveUSB without an orderly shut-down. I have no
solution for that and have never been able to resurrect and correct
a filesystem corrupted by improper shutdown.

Re-mastering is conceptually purer, certainly produces a smaller
final cloop collection of material, but requires about twice the
amount of space in which to perform the compaction, and much more
time in which to do what needs to be done. Re-mastering does not
solve the improper shutdown hazard either, unfortunately.