When a Live CD or Live DVD (a LiveOS image on read-only disc media) is booted, temporary storage is prepared for the system in RAM on each boot by the /sbin/dm/sbin/dmsquash-live-root in initrd0 the initial ram disk filesystem. An in-memory copy-on-write system overlay is used (see [[#File Systems|File Systems]] below).
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When a Live CD or Live DVD (a LiveOS image on read-only disc media) is booted, temporary storage is prepared for the system in RAM on each boot by the /sbin/dmsquash-live-root in initrd0, the initial ram disk filesystem. An in-memory copy-on-write system overlay is used (see [[#File Systems|File Systems]] below).
The Fedora LiveOS system allows for persistent storage in 3 locations:
The Fedora LiveOS system allows for persistent storage in 3 locations: