Ubuntu
casper package

Support for fat32 for casper-rw partition type

Bug #313566 reported by Patrice Vetsel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
casper (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: casper

I hope to see support for vfat/fat32 for the casper-rw partition (now just->Type could be one of "cpio", "squashfs" or "ext2".)

I'm working in making an Ubuntu usb live persistent system. In this dongle we have also windows free software (like firefox) and we want to share data from casper-rw partition between live ubuntu user and windows softwares (bookmarks->firefox, mail->thunderbird etc.)

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Christoph Schmied (schmiedc) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is a Feature Request to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at [WWW] https://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

Cheers

Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in casper:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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probono (probono) wrote :

I don't think this could work since vfat/fat32 doesn't support permissions, symlinks, and case sensitive filenames, all of which are required.

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

It's not possible to use vfat as the backend for overlayfs as it's not a posix compatible file system.
For this specifc bug, I'd suggest you just use another partition and mount it as /home/ubuntu/Documents.

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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