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[SEMERENDO.cr]

Is there a way to preserve the changes?
It's interesting, because I've noticed that the system, when booting, permanently mounts some partitions and doesn't let me unmount them to back up some with "Gnome Disk"

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/home/guest/.config/user-dirs.dirs

[Ed_P]

I see no partitions in my user-dirs.dirs file.

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# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

What is on the partition you want to unmount? And what messages are you getting when you can't unmount it?

Changes in Porteus are backed up with:

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 

root@porteus:/home/guest# /opt/porteus-scripts/save-changes

save-changes /path/to/resulting/module.xzm

There's also a changes-commit command to backup a session's changes.

[SEMERENDO.cr]

Changes no saved, only partitions mount in "/mnt"!

[Ed_P]

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/home/guest/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Changes no saved, only partitions mount in "/mnt"!

Ok.

to back up some with "Gnome Disk"

So what partition are you trying to backup with Disk? And

what messages are you getting when you can't unmount it?

Porteus has apps for backing up changes, with the "partitions" mounted.

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This link may help you: https://www.tecmint.com/clone-linux-partitions/

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Oh! Just rethought this. You want to exclude Porteus $HOME directories from the user-dirs.dirs file so you can back them up like partitions? That's not how Porteus is built. All changes written/made to the Porteus $HOME folders are actually written to their shadow in the /mnt/live/memory/changes/ directory. So, to backup the changes you made run the save-changes or changes-commit commands, which create xzm files of the changes you've made.

If you want to create file backups with GNOME-DISK copy/move the files you want to save that way to a partition/drive/folder outside of Porteus. I save many downloads and pictures to folders on drives outside of the Porteus system for access by my Windows systems. And I do that for backups of many of my $HOME files.

I also create modules of some of my customized changes, like my file manager's bookmarks. So, backups are a good thing, just need to know how to do them.

hth

[SEMERENDO.cr]

Yeah, in the end I have a copy that Geany drags and I replace it... regarding the rest, before, I used the "partimage" program and I no longer remember if it was a requirement to unmount!