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Wouldn't it be a desirable and safe(r) option to be able remaster a running Live USB to a 2nd flash drive?

That seems like a good idea to me also.

the remaster makes a duplicate linuxfs file, and has a rollback feature. its pretty safe as is.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:25 pm the remaster makes a duplicate linuxfs file, and has a rollback feature. its pretty safe as is.

Agreed, it seems to be safe in practice. In over two years, I've never had one fail. Yet, every time I remaster, I'm sure it's going to fail on me and consider myself lucky every time it just works. I'm sure failure is out there. That's why I make backups.

The idea of remastering to a 2nd flash drive is that it could bypass the roll-back feature on the 2nd hard drive while preserving the source drive with no changes to it. Maybe a user doesn't have room to remaster on the current Live-usb and needs to upgrade.

I've been known to have both good and bad ideas.

figueroa wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 10:59 pm Maybe a user doesn't have room to remaster on the current Live-usb

That's a very good reason, IMO.