Reply To: Retrieving system files from a live usb

[Anonymous]

BitJam wrote:

eltuno wrote:

I’m looking for a way to mount my live usb (MX) in order to retrieve firefox setting files from it.

The answer depends on how you saved the settings: root persistence, home persistence, or live remaster.
There are three files under the antiX/ directory that may contain then settings depending on how you stored them:

rootfs (root persistence)
homefs (home persistence)
linuxfs (live-remaster)

You can use the same mount command to mount any of them and then get your settings. For example, let’s assume the live-usb is mounted at /media/live-usb. You can mount the rootfs file like this:

sudo mkdir /mnt/root
sudo mount /media/live-usb/antiX/rootfs /mnt/rootfs

When you are done, you can clean up with:

sudo umount /mnt/root
sudo rmdir /mnt/root

HTH

Yep that worked, and surprisingly there’s no need to unsquash anything

Good to know.

Actually I’ll have to export/import my bookmarks from my live MX, otherwise I’m going to overwrite the bookmarks I have already on that other OS, but it’s good to know anyhow.

Thank u all for sharing ur tips

[edit]
Oh yeah I got it, this is the rootfs not the linuxfs, so no need to unsquash it … I should have thought twice