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

[Williamson Grant]

That clears that up, I create the usb img file from the iso using my  
own scripts, guess that is where
I got confused.

On May 20, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:13 +0200, 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.
>
> The Live Image itself is ext4.  That is wrapped up in a squashfs file,
> and then the file and some boot loader files are placed either on a CD
> or on a USB device.  The format of the USB device doesn't matter much,
> vfat, ext[2,3], etc.. so long as the bootloader can boot it.  It does
> not have to match the filesystem that is in the squashfs image.
>
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