Quote Originally Posted by josep
I just burn a 8cm DVD-RW with the Kanoppix 4.7 amd this is fine....

My Idea.

Use the rest of the RW Disk as a HOME

Format the DVD as two devices, mount one for the Knoppyx and the second one as a different HDD to HOME

¿Could be possible?
If I understand you correctlyl, are you saying you want to use the remaining space of the DVD-RW as a "persistant home" ???

If so, I dont think its going to work... Reason, I dont think Linux is at the "level" of being able to re-write media without first evaporating what is already on that media. i.e. you need to erase the media before you can put something on it, or, you would have a "multi-session" media. In the case of a "multi-session" media, you would just be appending to the disc, and not updating what is already there.

For your idea to work, the disc would need to be able to handle "packet" data, like a hard drive, or flash, or what-ever, and I dont think re-write media, like CD's or DVD's are at this level in Linux, at this point. I could be wrong, but, I think that is what I know, and have heard. Persistant home areas need to be on a media that can be written to "many" times, and even "flash" and "stick" media have come up with problems on this "re-write" ability, sometimes failing in shorter times than they should have been, only the hard drive has stood the test of time, on the re-writes, and being able to handle the "updating" that is required for a persistant home area.

I have a CD-RW, and from what I have used it for, mostly, is "off storing" data that needs to be stored, but not updated, in Linux. If I need to change the data on that media, I have had to "re-cut" the complete CD again, with a full erase of the media, and then re-write the complete CD from scratch. Not sure if this has changed with the new releases of Knoppix, I run v3.4, but, this, again, is what I have heard...

This all could be "old tech", and not current, but, this is what I have heard, hope it helps