Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the tip; it would have taken me ages to figure that one
out on my own.
I'm on my laptop now; I'll re-build the image tomorrow and let you know if it
worked. Thanks again!
-->Seth
--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than expected
To: sorlok_reaves(a)yahoo.com, fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:42 AM
On Tuesday, March 17 2009, S'orlok Reaves said:
> I'm using the LiveUSB feature of the LiveCDs,
with the overlay feature to persist data. I have to say,
I'm really enjoying the portability. However, I'm
unable to install all the packages I would like to, due to a
mysterious fact: the overlay file is way smaller than I
created it to be.
[snip]
> Running "df -h" on a clean boot of the usb
shows me:
> /dev/mapper/live-rw 741M (size) 715M(used)
20M(avail) (mounted as /)
> ....and several tmpfs's I'm using for /var/run
and yum's cache
While the overlay is larger than this, the filesystem size
may be
smaller. If you look at the kickstart config you used to
create your
image, you probably have a rootfs size specified to be on
the smaller
size
Jeremy