Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

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Current live ISOs are read-only due to their ISO9660 file system, which cannot be written to. A common workaround is to use OverlayFS, but this requires a writable file system, which is not present in live ISOs.

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Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

6/5/2026, 6:30:53 AM

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