Amatix Office

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Persistence

Description

Amatix Office is a live system which doesn't need any storage device to run. It stores the data in the non-persistent RAM, so after a reboot, the data will be lost.

Amatix Office gives you the possibility to permanently store the data on storage devices like hard disks or USB Flash drives. All you have to do is to create a writeable partition, with a filesystem labeled "live-rw", on your storage device. At the server boot stage, this partition will be used to store all data.

Example

This example describes how to store the data on the same USB Flash drive where Amatix Office is installed. You can take the USB Flash drive everywhere whith you and plug it in other machines, the server will start with all your data available: this is a "Mobile Office".
  1. Start the partition editor GParted and select your USB Flash drive.

    GParted

  2. Select the unallocated region and create a new partition with a filesystem labeled "live-rw".

    Edit partition

  3. Wait until the partition and the filesystem are created.

    Create partition

  4. Here is the result. The /dev/sdb2 partition will be used to store the data.

    Partition created

  5. Reboot the server. After the reboot, your data will be stored on the USB Flash drive.

Revert to factory defaults

You can revert to the factory defaults any time by changing the storage filesystem label, so it will be not used any more at the boot stage.
  1. Change the filesystem label. For the ext2/ext3 filesystem, you can do it using the command /sbin/e2label.

    $/sbin/e2label /dev/sdb2 old-live-rw

  2. Reboot the server. After the reboot, your data will be stored in the non-persistent RAM.