[Fedora-livecd-list] Any rumors on larger persistence?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 06/01/2014 11:41 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
> <mailto:ToddAndMargo at zoho.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > Anyone know any rumors as to if we are going to
>  > be able to have more than 4 GB of persistence
>  > in the future?   Ext2/3/4 perhaps?
>  >
>  > It is really difficult to discipline myself to
>  > keep it under 4 GB.
>  >
>  > Many thanks,
>  > -T
>
>
> Overlays greater than 4 GiB are available now with ext4 formatting of
> the Live CD device.
>
> For example,
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format --overlay-size-mb 10000
> home-size-mb 1024 --unencrypted-home /path/to/iso /dev/sde
>
> produces a Live CD with a 10485760000 byte overlay file.
>
> df -TB1 /dev/sde1
> Filesystem     Type   1B-blocks       Used   Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sde1      ext4 15664103424 1066409984 13778391040   8%
> /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
>
> $ du -bac /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
> du: cannot read directory ‘/run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found’:
> Permission denied
> 16384 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found
> 49005 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk
> 1073741824 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/home.img
> 929828864 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/squashfs.img
> 8192 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/osmin.img
> 10485760000
> /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-56dbd871-9b9e-42d8-bf9a-7eee16db0e1c
> 12489391981 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS
> 5139320 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vmlinuz0
> 5152768 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/efiboot.img
> 24576 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/isolinux.bin
> 2048 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/boot.cat <http://boot.cat>
> 2395 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/extlinux.conf
> 32002862 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/initrd0.img
> 155792 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vesamenu.c32
> 32256 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/ldlinux.sys
> 20643840 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/macboot.img
> 176760 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/memtest
> 63336713 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux
> 12552749174 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE
> 12552749174 total
>
> See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image

Hi Fredrick,

Very cool.  Thank you!
I could not find this on the link you sent.

Do you first format your stick with ext4? Or,
leave it unformatted with a single blank
primary partition?

-T