On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@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
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