space on the live cds
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Sun Jan 27 21:46:41 UTC 2008
John Reiser wrote:
>
> After that, why does Fedora not use compression like KNOPPIX?
> Using the cloop device with gzip fits a filesystem of about 1.2GB
> onto a CD-ROM, while lzma often can squeeze in another 15% or more.
Boot up the f8 livecd and do a df -h. 2+G. Fedora uses squashfs on an
ext3 fsimg. Ubuntu gets a bit better because they use unionfs with
squashfs native (but only about 5% better). I'm sure fedora will use
lzma if/when that squashfs patch gets into fedora's packages.
(and in the name of full disclosure, when I recently complained about
the size of selinux, I said something like 100MB. I think that may
actually be true, given experiments I made removing it, and related
dependencies, though 50M is what I see with packages named
selin*&setro*. And those numbers are from the uncompressed (out of
2.1G) size of the livecd, not the compressed size).
-dmc
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