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

[S'orlok Reaves]

Just confirming that the kickstart change worked.

I used something like:
part / --size 1600


Now everything's up and running (except X, but I'll figure that out on my own.)

Thanks again, Jeremy.
-->Seth



--- On Tue, 3/17/09, S'orlok Reaves <sorlok_reaves at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: S'orlok Reaves <sorlok_reaves at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than expected
> To: fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 11:29 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the tip; it would have
> taken me ages to figure that one out on my own.
> 
> I'm on my laptop now; I'll re-build the image tomorrow and
> let you know if it worked. Thanks again!
> 
> -->Seth
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size
> is smaller than expected
> > To: sorlok_reaves at yahoo.com,
> fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:42 AM
> > 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
> 
> 
>       
> 
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