[fedora-arm] F17 snapshot images

Brendan Conoboy blc at redhat.com
Sun Apr 1 01:34:59 UTC 2012


On 03/31/2012 08:10 AM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix I'm shrinking the image as much as
> possible by shortening the last (root) partition. The  partition is
> resized to fill the SD card on first boot (fdisk, reboot, resize2fs).
> This results in a small image size, minimizes unnecessary writes to the
> SD card, works on any card size, and lets you take full advantage of the
> space on the card.
>
> Perhaps we should adopt that approach for the images?

Would be happy to add this- with that sort of functionality I'd have no 
reservation about creating a 1.990GB image.  Send me a pointer to how 
you're doing this during the first boot and I'll integrate it into the 
rootfs image generator.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com


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