On 02/22/2016 01:55 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
On 19 Feb 2016, at 14:42, Nahum Shalman wrote:
After resizing you'd probably need to re-install grub...
An alternative is to format the USB stick with a ZFS pool and boot
that way (as a bonus you can then take snapshots and I've heard that
it boots a little faster than pcfs...):
http://blog.shalman.org/smartos-zfs-boot-media/
If you want to stick with pcfs, you could follow similar steps to
format your USB stick at its full capacity and then install grub on it.
The reason that the image is fixed at such a small size is so that
people can use it on pretty much any USB stick they have lying around
(If we made the image 8GB and a person had lots of 4GB sticks lying
around.... etc.)
Is it possible to restrict the size of the image to just slightly less
than the size of a given USB stick?
I ask because when I was trying out napp-it, that came as a 16GB image
and out of half a dozen USB sticks I had here, only one was the full
size (I ended up using a 32GB stick for a backup). The dirty truth
about USB sticks is that they are often a few MB short of their
advertised capacity*. That doesn't matter much when using them as
general storage, but it does when you are trying to put a fixed size
image onto one.
* with the USB sticks I had available at the time, the shortfall
varied from 9MB to 273MB
That's in fact what we do:
https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/blob/master/tools/build_iso#L179
The image is 2000000000 bytes long. I've never heard reports that it was
still too big, but if anyone has had trouble with it they should speak up.
Also, if any vendor is shipping something smaller than that and labeling
it as 2GB they should be publicly shamed. That is the absolute smallest
number that can acceptably be called 2GB.
-Nahum
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