[Fedora-livecd-list] Misconfigured devicemapper setup within the livecd?

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2012/5/29 Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com>:
> > It is generally not a good idea to try to install extra packages when
> > running the livecd. The relationship between the device-mapper and the
> > size of the packages isn't 1:1 so you are likely to run out of space.
> >
> > --
> > Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA
> (PST8PDT)
>
> Yes, but with 16GB RAM it shouldn't be that easy to hit the limit. My
> root partition has 10GB size and usually I have about 6,5GB free. So
> installung some packages shouldn't be a problem.  As I already wrote
> this behaviour started to appear about 3-4 ago. What I saw at almost
> the same time was that my iso images schrank with about 25-30MB in
> size. This isn't just a coincidence...
>
> --
>
> -- joshua
>

The root filesystem of Fedora live CD images are compressed into a SquashFS
image and a permanent or temporary virtual filesystem overlay is provided
by device-mapper for write-once storage space.

See
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image
for more information.

        --Fred
<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image>
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