[Fedora-livecd-list] How to create live dvd? (livecd-creator fail)

[Valent Turkovic]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:14:53 +0100,
>  Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I used to be able to create live DVD with Fedora 8 and 9 using
>> livecd-creator tool but now I can't do it anymore with Fedora 10.
>>
>> I get an error that there isn't enough space to create image and
>> livecd-creator fails.
>>
>> I used to do it without problem, so maybe the packages have grown or I
>> added more packages than there is space for them. I see that
>> /dev/loop0 is created and the size of that virtual partition is only
>> 3GB:
>> /dev/loop0            3.0G  602M  2.4G  21%
>> /home/temp/imgcreate-KWfqq9/install_root
>>
>> I guess that when space runs out in that partition livecd-creator
>> fails. Am I right?
>
> There are two space limits that I am aware of. One is the uncompressed
> file system that the build is done in and the other is the limit to
> the size of the compressed file system on the media.
>
> The first limit is controlled by the part command. The recommended size
> for DVDs is 8192, but that can end up being your limit if you are getting
> reasonable compression.
>
> The second limit is 4GiB and is due to a restriction of file sizes of the
> iso9660 format. You can get around this using udf instead. I am working
> on patches to livecd-creator to switch to udf when this limit is reached.
> They probably won't in Fedora before the alpha. But if you do go over
> the 4 GiB limit, you can look at bug 476696 for a patch that will
> unconditionally use udf.
>


But why is /dev/loop0 then only 3GB of size and not 4GB?


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