For the time being, if anyone with such a small card, here is a working image with 3.9e9 bytes:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/niemeyer/ubuntu-core-WEBDM-alpha-03_armhf-bbb.img.xz On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Any of these would fix the issue for the card I have at hand, but I'm > tempted to suggest the middle one (3.9e9). > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Alexander Sack <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The newest images seem to present the same issue still. >>> >>> Any chance/intention of fixing this? >> >> yes please! >> >> Michael/Sergio: can you make a trello card so we don't forget for next >> milestone? >> >> Gustavo/All: what buffer should we use to make this safe? >> >> (4-0.05)*10^9 bytes? >> (4-0.10)*10^9 bytes? >> (4-0.20)*10^9 bytes? >> >> Any preference or maybe ideas how to find the perfect number? I tend >> to think unless we have good ideas, we should rather add more buffer >> to be safe :). >> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 4GiB would actually be 300MiB *over* 4*10^9 bytes, so the image is already >>>> discounting that. The device I have is ~3.98*10^9 bytes. >>>> >>>> On Feb 13, 2015 1:03 AM, "Gustavo Niemeyer" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 4GiB would actually be 300MiB *over* 4*10^9 bytes, so the image is already >>>>> discounting that. The device I have is ~3.98*10^9 bytes. >>>>> >>>>> On Feb 13, 2015 12:25 AM, "Joe Talbott" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:58:43PM -0200, Sergio Schvezov wrote: >>>>>> > On jueves 12 de febrero de 2015 22h'25:51 BRST, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: >>>>>> > >Hey all, >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > >It would be good to reduce the snappy image size just a little bit. >>>>>> > >I have a Kingston MicroSD card that self-reports as 4GB, but it >>>>>> > >is not large enough to hold the image. I had to take a few MB >>>>>> > >out from the last partition to make it work. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > I totally agree! I just haven't figured out what a "bit" is; I guess >>>>>> > I we can be on the safe side and say 4GB is going to 3.9GB (-100MB >>>>>> > to be on the safe side given the plethora of devices). >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Is that a good number? >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Ogra, you gave me a long explanation on variation; is +/-100MB a >>>>>> > good σ expected on the population of sdcards around? >>>>>> >>>>>> It's my understanding that a lot of storage manufacturers use 1000 as >>>>>> the number of bits per kilobyte rather than 1024. I'd think -300MB would >>>>>> suffice as that's roughly the difference between the two. >>>>>> >>>>>> Joe >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> snappy-devel mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net >>> >>> -- >>> snappy-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel > > > > -- > gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- snappy-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-devel
