On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0700, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 17:07 -0400, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> > I want to build a bootable USB Flash R/W image on an 8GB Flash key.
> >
> > I have done this with image-creator and run on a small 1G flash key. Now
> > I want to build a 8GB flash bootable R/W image so I can add .mp4 videos
> > for a demo. When I followed the same process as before, it worked, but I
> > seem to have no more space on the flash key. There must be some fixed
> > size limit that someone used to create the file system which isn't
> > dynamically increasing when I use a 8GB flash key. Is there a way to fix
> > this?
>
> This is an artifact from creating the image on disk, and then just
> dd'ing the image to the flash key. It's something that's bugged me for
> a while, but I never got around to changing the way the key creation
> works.
>
> For now, you should be able to take your new usb-rw key,
> * mount it and copy over all the files to some place on disk
> * fdisk the key creating one big vfat partition (use the 'o' option and
> then the 'w' option)
> * create a new vfat partition on the entire disk (sudo mkfs.vfat
> -I /dev/SOMETHING)
> * install a new boot sector (sudo syslinux /dev/SOMETHING)
> * Mount the disk and copy over all the original files
>
> This is all untested, but at least pretty close to something that should
> work.
Looks like you have to also manually create a new ext3fs.img
Praj... do you know if anyone is working on making mic take advantage of
the full usb key on a usb rw image?
--rusty
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