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Persistent home and opt
When Installed on a Hard Drive
The best way to run Tiny Core when installed on a hard drive, is using persistent home and opt.
To have persistent home and opt, add
opt=sda1 home=sda1
to the bootloader. If not in sda1, use the correct partition.
When Installed on a USB Drive
When setting up persistent home and/or opt in a USB drive, it is ideal to use the UUID.
To set up persistent opt, edit the bootloader configuration file, adding persistent opt.
If you have installed Tiny Core using the installer, you should already have tce=UUID=“9aff3da3-474d-440d-bb6c-3240afe84ac6” (the number will be different). To set up persistent opt, copy the UUID number, like this
opt=UUID="9aff3da3-474d-440d-bb6c-3240afe84ac6" tce=UUID="9aff3da3-474d-440d-bb6c-3240afe84ac6"
Use the UUID number for your USB drive.
To set up persistent home, do the same for home.
If you have not installed Tiny Core using the installer, to find out the UUID, use
blkid -s UUID /dev/sda1
If not sda1, use the correct partition.
Backup
If you use backup as well as persistent home and opt, edit /opt/.filetool.lst, delete all references to the home and opt directories (in the version I am using that is everything), then add a list of files and directories you want backed up to /opt/.filetool.lst.
For more information, see
