[Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than expected

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tuesday, March 17 2009, S'orlok Reaves said:
>    I'm using the LiveUSB feature of the LiveCDs, with the overlay feature to persist data. I have to say, I'm really enjoying the portability. However, I'm unable to install all the packages I would like to, due to a mysterious fact: the overlay file is way smaller than I created it to be.
[snip]
> Running "df -h" on a clean boot of the usb shows me:
> /dev/mapper/live-rw   741M (size) 715M(used) 20M(avail) (mounted as /)
> ....and several tmpfs's I'm using for /var/run and yum's cache

While the overlay is larger than this, the filesystem size may be
smaller.  If you look at the kickstart config you used to create your
image, you probably have a rootfs size specified to be on the smaller
size

Jeremy