On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Joshua C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/5/29 Brian C. Lane <[email protected]>: > > It is generally not a good idea to try to install extra packages when > > running the livecd. The relationship between the device-mapper and the > > size of the packages isn't 1:1 so you are likely to run out of space. > > > > -- > > Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA > (PST8PDT) > > Yes, but with 16GB RAM it shouldn't be that easy to hit the limit. My > root partition has 10GB size and usually I have about 6,5GB free. So > installung some packages shouldn't be a problem. As I already wrote > this behaviour started to appear about 3-4 ago. What I saw at almost > the same time was that my iso images schrank with about 25-30MB in > size. This isn't just a coincidence... > > -- > > -- joshua > The root filesystem of Fedora live CD images are compressed into a SquashFS image and a permanent or temporary virtual filesystem overlay is provided by device-mapper for write-once storage space. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image for more information. --Fred <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image>
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