[Fedora-livecd-list] 3 GB barrier

[ToddAndMargo]

On 05/12/2015 09:06 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
>> with ext3?
>>
>> Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
>
> I'm guessing that the USB thumbdrives are formatted with vfat and that limits the max filesize?
>
> TYL,
>

Hi Scott,

I wipe and reformat with ext3.

And it does sound like someone put an artificial 3 GB
barrier into it to accommodate max single file size
limitation of FAT.

With the following on a 16 GB ext3 stick:

livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 13287 
Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso /dev/sdc1

It will tell you the max "--overlay-size-mb" is 13287 if
you tell it something larger than it likes.

But, even when adjusted to make the stinker happy, you
still get 3 GB.

So, basically, is this a bug?  And, has it been fixed
anywhere?

-T