F9 live USB persistence problem

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 18/04/2008, William John Murray <w.j.murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>   Well, I restarted, having squeezed my USB disk partition up to 1.5Gb.
>   This time I asked for CD+1024Mb, assuming the installer would complain,
>  and I could get the maximum possible disk by trial and error.
>    It didn't complain, it just installed. So I thought 'thats nice'
>  and installed ooffice, evolution-exchange, gparted etc. Eventually
>  I hit the same problem as above - out of disk space, file system
>  corrupted.
>   Summary: Its a really nice system. But it needs protection against
>  this major issue.

Note that you can also hit the same issue if you try to specify an
overlay bigger than what's on the disk at the creation stage:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443046

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh