Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Where to turn off filesystem writing spew..
Jonathan Steffan wrote:
Jon Steer wrote:
> I'd like to make the livecd create a little quieter and not have it print
> out the block writing like below.
>
> 32539/32769 99%[===========================================================
> ]-
>
> I can't seem to find where this is written? I added a quiet argument to
> mkisofs but that apparently wasn't it.
>
> Where can I turn this off?
That seems to be when it runs the squash (line 900-903). I don't,
however, see a way to make mksquashfs be quite. You could add
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, but then you need to deal with the stdout buffer
or the call will hang.
-no-progress appears to be the option to mksquashfs that you are looking
for. I too have been annoyed by its output in a logfile.
I thought about throwing together a patch to finally implement some kind
of --verbose/--debug/--quiet to livecd-creator. But I'm not exactly
sure where the progress bar falls into that.
Perhaps the correct way would be to somehow detect if the livecd-creator
output is going to a terminal, and only do the progress bar in that
situation. I know this is possible, as a bug I had in cleanupDeleted
dealt with the fact that fsck (in the absense of a flag) behaved
differently based on whether or not the output was redirected.
-dmc