• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hmm I mean Ive never done it for obvious reasons but maybe? live cds/dvds load the whole OS in RAM and could erase everything but I am not sure about the OS on disk. I could try it in a vm and see what actually happens

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      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s copied to ram. Which is also the reason you don’t need to stop programs while live updating them.

      The new version is only again copied from disk, when you start it at a later time.