[Fedora-livecd-list] Any rumors on larger persistence?

[Frederick Grose]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2014 11:41 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
>> <mailto:ToddAndMargo at zoho.com>> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Hi All,
>>  >
>>  > Anyone know any rumors as to if we are going to
>>  > be able to have more than 4 GB of persistence
>>  > in the future?   Ext2/3/4 perhaps?
>>  >
>>  > It is really difficult to discipline myself to
>>  > keep it under 4 GB.
>>  >
>>  > Many thanks,
>>  > -T
>>
>>
>> Overlays greater than 4 GiB are available now with ext4 formatting of
>> the Live CD device.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format --overlay-size-mb 10000
>> home-size-mb 1024 --unencrypted-home /path/to/iso /dev/sde
>>
>> produces a Live CD with a 10485760000 byte overlay file.
>>
>> df -TB1 /dev/sde1
>> Filesystem     Type   1B-blocks       Used   Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sde1      ext4 15664103424 1066409984 13778391040   8%
>> /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
>>
>> $ du -bac /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
>> du: cannot read directory ‘/run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found’:
>> Permission denied
>> 16384 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found
>> 49005 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk
>> 1073741824 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/home.img
>> 929828864 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/squashfs.img
>> 8192 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/osmin.img
>> 10485760000
>>
/run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-56dbd871-9b9e-42d8-bf9a-7eee16db0e1c
>> 12489391981 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS
>> 5139320 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vmlinuz0
>> 5152768 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/efiboot.img
>> 24576 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/isolinux.bin
>> 2048 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/boot.cat <http://boot.cat>
>>
>> 2395 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/extlinux.conf
>> 32002862 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/initrd0.img
>> 155792 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vesamenu.c32
>> 32256 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/ldlinux.sys
>> 20643840 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/macboot.img
>> 176760 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/memtest
>> 63336713 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux
>> 12552749174 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
>> 12552749174 total
>>
>> See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image
>
>
> Hi Fredrick,
>
> Very cool.  Thank you!
> I could not find this on the link you sent.
>
> Do you first format your stick with ext4? Or,
> leave it unformatted with a single blank
> primary partition?


Both are possible.  The latter requires the livecd-iso-to-disk --format
option, which now defaults to ext4.

See the usage section at the top of
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

     --Fred
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