On 04/04/2014 08:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 13:01:39 -0700,
ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
>
> I love my Fedora Live USB a little too much. Can't get enough
> space to add everything I want to it.
>
> Do you know of a way to overcome the 4GB persistent
> storage restriction? ("overlay-live-xxxxx" I presume.)
>
> I am trying to do this:
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 7194
> /home/kvm/Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-20-1.iso /dev/sdc1
>
> But get told overlay can only be 2048 max.
That might be because the overlay file is normally going to be on an FAT
file system. Though I think I saw a bug somewhere that said the limit
really should be less that 4GiB.
How large is your device? You might consider doing a normal install to
it if you are going to be doing updates and keeping it for a long time
without refreshing. Note that you can't normally update the kernel in a
live image. So for long term use a normal install is better, assuming
you have the room.
Hi Bruno,
The current stick I am using is 16 GB.
I use the Live USB as rescue disk at my customer sites (mostly
to save Windows computers). I had though of installing directly,
but have been told that I can not expect that /dev/sda will
always be the stick.
-T
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