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removing live usb while running from it (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I accidentally removed a xubuntu live usb from the computer while it was running but it seems to be working just fine. I can even launch applications that werent already open.

Is that expected? I have always thought you need to be careful to avoid bumping the usb drive or otherwise disturbing it.

Where is everything being stored? In RAM? Is the whole contents of the usb copied into RAM or just some parts?

Edit: tried it with manjaro and it fell apart. All kinds of never before seen errors. Replacing the usb didnt fix it. Couldnt even shut down the machine, had to hard power off.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Liveusb sistems do get stored in RAM since it's so much faster and reliable. Also I'm pretty sure most liveusb are read-only so it's Hardee to modify data. Manjaro must be loading small parts into Ram, or you didn't had enough ram, so when you took it out it only had the data on RAM which wasn't enough for it to process any command