On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/01/2014 11:41 AM, Frederick Grose wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:40 AM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Anyone know any rumors as to if we are going to >> > be able to have more than 4 GB of persistence >> > in the future? Ext2/3/4 perhaps? >> > >> > It is really difficult to discipline myself to >> > keep it under 4 GB. >> > >> > Many thanks, >> > -T >> >> >> Overlays greater than 4 GiB are available now with ext4 formatting of >> the Live CD device. >> >> For example, >> >> livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format --overlay-size-mb 10000 >> home-size-mb 1024 --unencrypted-home /path/to/iso /dev/sde >> >> produces a Live CD with a 10485760000 byte overlay file. >> >> df -TB1 /dev/sde1 >> Filesystem Type 1B-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sde1 ext4 15664103424 1066409984 13778391040 8% >> /run/media/fgrose/LIVE >> >> $ du -bac /run/media/fgrose/LIVE >> du: cannot read directory ‘/run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found’: >> Permission denied >> 16384 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/lost+found >> 49005 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk >> 1073741824 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/home.img >> 929828864 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/squashfs.img >> 8192 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/osmin.img >> 10485760000 >> /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-56dbd871-9b9e-42d8-bf9a-7eee16db0e1c >> 12489391981 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/LiveOS >> 5139320 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vmlinuz0 >> 5152768 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/efiboot.img >> 24576 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/isolinux.bin >> 2048 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/boot.cat <http://boot.cat> >> >> 2395 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/extlinux.conf >> 32002862 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/initrd0.img >> 155792 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 >> 32256 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/ldlinux.sys >> 20643840 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/macboot.img >> 176760 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux/memtest >> 63336713 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE/syslinux >> 12552749174 /run/media/fgrose/LIVE >> 12552749174 total >> >> See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image > > > Hi Fredrick, > > Very cool. Thank you! > I could not find this on the link you sent. > > Do you first format your stick with ext4? Or, > leave it unformatted with a single blank > primary partition?
Both are possible. The latter requires the livecd-iso-to-disk --format option, which now defaults to ext4. See the usage section at the top of https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --Fred
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