I've updated the title and description as usb-creator can write to usb
hard drives as of Karmic.
** Summary changed:
- Support for USB Hard drives and UDF image files
+ Support for UDF image files
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
Hello,
-
- I would like to ask for support for USB Hard drives, not only for USB
- sticks. The reason is the limit in size of the USB sticks, while and USB
- hard drives offer more space and are cheaper compared to the sticks. I
- think it's also confusing to limit the installation to sticks only: the
- user expects other USB disc in general would work..
-
- In the second place, I'll ask for a feature. It will not be a big
- change:
We are now able to make dual layer liveDVDs with a modified version of
"remastersys" which use the UDF filesystem for our cd images rather than
a pure iso9660 (genisoimage can make ISOs with UDF support). The UDF
filesystem, which can be bootable like a pure iso9660, allows us to
exceed the limit of 4,7GB of standard iso9660 filesystems for the
overall size and the 4,7GB for per-file sizes.
It would be nice if Usb Creator could let the user choose the "udf"
filesystem instead of assuming "iso9660" as default type for "mount".
Note that the "mount" system command will not complain about mounting
UDF images with "-t iso9660", but the size of big files will **NOT** be
reported correctly in this case. You must pass an explicit "-t udf" (and
not "-t auto") to mount for having file sizes reported correctly by the
system.
A simple way to implement an automatic filesystem detection for the user
would be to try to mount as "udf" first and, in case of error, try to
mount as "iso9660" or "auto".
thanks
+
+ The original report also contained the following, which is fixed in Karmic:
+ "I would like to ask for support for USB Hard drives, not only for USB
sticks. The reason is the limit in size of the USB sticks, while and USB hard
drives offer more space and are cheaper compared to the sticks. I think it's
also confusing to limit the installation to sticks only: the user expects other
USB disc in general would work.."
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Support for UDF image files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313877
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