On Wednesday, May 20 2009, Rahul Sundaram said: > On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote: > > Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4. > > > > The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when > > I last tried the > > usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4. > > > > Comments anyone? > > Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot > partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora > uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a > customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in > kickstart.
This isn't entirely accurate. The live images themselves are entirely ext4. When you install them on a hard drive, we make an ext3 /boot and do some shuffling in anaconda. The ext4 live image is compressed inside of a squashfs which is then placed on your USB stick which should be formatted either as vfat, ext2, or ext3. I don't believe that extlinux (which we use for booting ext* USB sticks with live images on them) supports ext4 yet Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
