[Fedora-livecd-list] Space available 8GB USB Device

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 16:27:42 -0300,
   Cadu <cadu.unisal1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>getdisk DEV = /dev/loop2
>Unable to fit live image + overlay on available space on USB
>stick
>+ Size of live image:  2986
>+ Overlay size:  2048
>+ Home overlay size:  2048
>---------------------------
>= Requested:  7082- Available:  7075
>---------------------------
>= To fit, free or decrease requested size total by:  7
>Cleaning up to exit...*
>*
>
>My question is: Which parameter can set the total space of my 8G pendrive?
>Why the space is limited in 7075?

The 8G advertised by the vendor is 8*10^9 bytes. I believe the sizes
above are in MiB (2^20 bytes). 8GB is only 7629 MiB. Then as mentioned
previously, a chunk of that needs to be used for file system overhead.