10:34 a.m.
Hi All,
Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
with ext3?
Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
-T
11:06 a.m.
Greetings,
----- Original Message -----
Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
with ext3?
Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
I'm guessing that the USB thumbdrives are formatted with vfat and that limits the max
filesize?
TYL,
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11:16 a.m.
On 05/12/2015 09:06 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Greetings,
----- Original Message -----
> Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
> with ext3?
>
> Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
I'm guessing that the USB thumbdrives are formatted with vfat and that limits the max
filesize?
TYL,
Hi Scott,
I wipe and reformat with ext3.
And it does sound like someone put an artificial 3 GB
barrier into it to accommodate max single file size
limitation of FAT.
With the following on a 16 GB ext3 stick:
livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 13287
Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso /dev/sdc1
It will tell you the max "--overlay-size-mb" is 13287 if
you tell it something larger than it likes.
But, even when adjusted to make the stinker happy, you
still get 3 GB.
So, basically, is this a bug? And, has it been fixed
anywhere?
-T
7:58 p.m.
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:16 PM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com>
wrote:
On 05/12/2015 09:06 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> Is there a reason why there is a 3 GB barrier on persistence
>> with ext3?
>>
>> Am I just banging my head trying to figure a way around it?
>>
>
> I'm guessing that the USB thumbdrives are formatted with vfat and that
> limits the max filesize?
>
> TYL,
>
>
Hi Scott,
I wipe and reformat with ext3.
And it does sound like someone put an artificial 3 GB
barrier into it to accommodate max single file size
limitation of FAT.
With the following on a 16 GB ext3 stick:
livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 13287
Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-21-5.iso /dev/sdc1
It will tell you the max "--overlay-size-mb" is 13287 if
you tell it something larger than it likes.
But, even when adjusted to make the stinker happy, you
still get 3 GB.
So, basically, is this a bug? And, has it been fixed
anywhere?
See this recent response,
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/2015-May/007723.html
It is important to understand that Fedora LiveCD technology is based on
embedded filesystems,
an ext4 filesystem and partition (inside the ext3fs.img file) that is
compressed inside a SquashFS
filesystem (inside the squashfs.img file) all saved on the LiveCD or .iso
file in an ISO 9660 filesystem,
or on a LiveUSB device in the LiveOS folder of the device filesystem (which
may be a fat, extX, or
other filesystem). With this technology, when one sees or thinks about a
file or filesystem size, one
must be careful and clear about which of the many simultaneously present
filesystems one is
referring to.
--Fred
-T
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