File system and storage space in live-persistent Trisquel
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When I wasn't interested to free software, I often wasted my time creating and customizing live-persistent distros with debian live. Today I tried the usb startup disk creator in Trisquel 4.0, and I'm impressed by how much easy and fast it is! However, I noticed that the maximum persistent storage space avaliable is 4 GB, so I was wondering: is it linked to the fact that the file system used, the fat32, support 4 GB files at maximum? And then, is there a way for expanding this space and/or for changing the file system used? Thank you!
Fabio
2010/9/16 <name at domain>
> When I wasn't interested to free software, I often wasted my time creating
> and customizing live-persistent distros with debian live. Today I tried the
> usb startup disk creator in Trisquel 4.0, and I'm impressed by how much easy
> and fast it is! However, I noticed that the maximum persistent storage space
> avaliable is 4 GB, so I was wondering: is it linked to the fact that the
> file system used, the fat32, support 4 GB files at maximum? And then, is
> there a way for expanding this space and/or for changing the file system
> used? Thank you!
>
> Fabio
Your maximum persistence size is 4000 MB since this is a limitation of the
FAT32 file type.
http://heshambahram.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/live-usb-with-ubuntu-10-04-lts/
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So I suppose It's impossible to change the file system directly from the usb creator... Ok, thank you very much! Maybe I'll try to change the file system using an old guideline for Debian live-helper, if i'll do (succesfully) I will post the procedure...
2010/9/25 <name at domain>
> So I suppose It's impossible to change the file system directly from the
> usb creator... Ok, thank you very much! Maybe I'll try to change the file
> system using an old guideline for Debian live-helper, if i'll do
> (succesfully) I will post the procedure...
>
I suppose you'll have to try another partitioning system on your flash but I
am not sure if it works that way.
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In fact in any case I don't think that the casper file will recognize the fact that he has a bigger avaliable space, so the only result should be that the system is saved on a different file system on the flash... However, I'll try in any case... Unfortunately I don't have an internet connection in these days, so I'll try in the week end.
This article: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-larger-than-4gb-casper-partition describes replacing the casper-rw file with a partition, which I have done before and works very well.
Unfortunately, however, since I've upgraded to Taranis, I've been unable to create a bootable USB with the script. The usb-creator program runs to completion, and I see the files on the drive, but neither my home computer or my work computer are able to boot from it.
I even tried running the script from a (non-persistent) fresh install of Trisquel on a different USB drive, with similar results. I see that there is an upstream bug in the script here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/645818 but it doesn't seem applicable to my situation (I'm just trying to create a 4.01 USB with a 4.01 image, not the beta for the _next_ version)
Has anyone else had this experience? Are there any work-arounds or anything else that I should try?
Thank GNU,
I used the article you suggested, it works great! Thank you very much!
It would be nice to have an option for doing the casper-rw partition directly from usb-creator! However, I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem, the only thing I have in mind is reinstalling syslinux (maybe mantaining ldlinux.sys) but probably it's a useless operation...
Glad I could help! Actually, I found this article over at the gNewSense wiki, so I might give re-installing syslinux a try:
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