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 <ka...@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Jeremy Katz <ka...@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] LiveUSB overlay size is smaller than
> expected
> To: sorlok_rea...@yahoo.com, fedora-livecd-list@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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