On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:14:53 +0100, > Valent Turkovic <[email protected]> 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? -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
