[Fedora-livecd-list] Different iso sizes

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:21:23 -0400
schrieb David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>:

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 13:34 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I've got just a small question: I've created three isos from the
> > same configuration. Each three created iso images have different
> > sizes. The first one is 672 MB, the second 683 MB and the third 697
> > MB. There was nothing I have changed beetwen them.
> 
> For the record I've seen this too and IIRC Bill did some investigation
> of the matter.

I'm not alone. :)

> 
> > Is this related to squashfs? 
> 
> Not sure.

Mhh. maybe.

# du -x livecd-20070314-16*
148216  livecd-20070314-1634.iso    (-> mounted as iso1)
150460  livecd-20070314-1647.iso    (-> mounted as iso2)

# du -x iso1/squashfs.img iso2/squashfs.img 
142648  iso1/squashfs.img
144892  iso2/squashfs.img

# du -x iso1/sysroot/os.img iso2/sysroot/os.img 
3145729 iso1/sysroot/os.img
3145729 iso2/sysroot/os.img

# du -xs iso1/sysroot/sysroot iso2/sysroot/sysroot
371260  iso1/sysroot/sysroot
371248  iso2/sysroot/sysroot


> 
> > And if so: What would be the "best" way to
> > create the smallest possible iso?
> 
> Trial and error right now :-)

Ok. :)

Sebastian
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