[Fedora-livecd-list] should a livecd be ext3 or ext4

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 20 07:23:17 UTC 2009


On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
> Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
> 
> The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when
> I last tried the
> usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
> 
> Comments anyone?

Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot
partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora
uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a
customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in
kickstart.

Rahul




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