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

[Frederick Grose]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM, ToddAndMargo  wrote:
> On 06/01/2014 11:41 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo <[e-mail]
> > > 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