Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than expected

[S'orlok Reaves]

Just confirming that the kickstart change worked.

I used something like:
part / --size 1600


Now everything's up and running (except X, but I'll figure that out on my own.)

Thanks again, Jeremy.
-->Seth



--- On Tue, 3/17/09, S'orlok Reaves <sorlok_reaves(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:

>  From: S'orlok Reaves <sorlok_reaves(a)yahoo.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than expected
>  To: fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
>  Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 11:29 AM
>  
>  
>  
>  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&gt;
>  wrote:
>  
>  > From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  > 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
>  
>  
>        
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