![]() ![]() I am not sure how squashfs would perform if you asked it to make an image file of the OS you were logged into?Īlso there may be complications if your home directory is on a separate partition. I made the squashfs file from outside of the OS. iso file with grub, but so far my efforts with. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. I tried it by hand with grub… I can boot a. Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. img file with a loop mount, the same way you boot a. img file is compressed, so Ventoy must be able to boot compressed images. So it is possible to make a bootable copy of an entire Linux in its current installed state. Everything is there, my login and password are intact. ![]() As it is booting it flashes a grub menu across the screen, so it is using grub to boot the. I get the Ventoy boot menu, and it offers voidlumina.img so I choose it and it boots Void with the Lumina desktop. Reboot, go to the BIOS, and boot from the usb drive.Use a new empty drive! It uses 24Gb for my Voidlumina OS. First time I tried it ran out of space… I had other stuff on the Ventoy flash drive. Inode table size 4662558 bytes (4553.28 Kbytes)Ģ5.52% of uncompressed inode table size (18270391 bytes)ĭirectory table size 5502033 bytes (5373.08 Kbytes)ģ8.26% of uncompressed directory table size (14379345 bytes)ĥ2.50% of uncompressed xattr table size (80 bytes) 613051/613051 100%Įxportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072Ĭompressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments,įilesystem size 24818918.79 Kbytes (24237.23 Mbytes)ħ8.99% of uncompressed filesystem size (31418705.08 Kbytes) Then issue the command to make the squashfs file and let it write it directly to the usb drive Ventoyext3 partition mksquashfs /media/nevj/LinuxRoot2/ /media/nevj/Ventoyext3/voidlumina.imgĬreating 4.0 filesystem on /media/nevj/Ventoyext3/voidlumina.img, block size 131072. I did this from another installation (MX) so I had to make sure LinuxRoot2 was mounted and the Ventoy partition called Ventoyext3 was mountedįilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on I chose to use my Void/Lumina installation which is on one of my HD partitions called LinuxRoot2. Make a squashfs file of the entire root filesystem of your installed Linux.I dont like that, so I used gparted to change the first partition to ext3 Needs to be at least 32Gb and better if it is usb3.0 Use Ventoy2Disk.sh to copy Ventoy to a usb flash drive. ![]() Want to put a copy of your entire installed Linux in its current state onto a Ventoy flash drive? I tried it, and it is possible. ![]()
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