Bug 798041
| Summary: | liveusb-creator should not allow attempt at more than 4GiB persistent overlay on FAT | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Eric Blake <eblake> | ||||
| Component: | liveusb-creator | Assignee: | Luke Macken <lmacken> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 18 | CC: | bcl, eblake, lmacken, pfrields, samuel-rhbugs, satellitgo | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-11-25 22:00:42 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Eric Blake
2012-02-27 21:48:01 UTC
Created attachment 566150 [details]
log of failure
Note that the embedded dd command mentioned in the log failed at exactly 4294967295 bytes, which is quite indicative of a 32-bit size limitation.
If the drive is formatted as FAT, then that's a filesystem limitation. Perhaps so, but then why doesn't liveusb-creator warn about that situation up front instead of wasting minutes of time only to fail at the end? This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Reassigning to F18, as I still think that liveusb-creator should do up-front prevention of attempts to set a persistent overlay larger than FAT can handle, rather than churning away for an hour only to fail in the end. It doesn't allow it any more. I've accidently run into it before, usually trying to make a 2GB overlay. This is the result: # livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 6000 Fedora-17-i386-DVD.iso /dev/sdb1 Can't have an overlay of 2048MB or greater on VFAT This should be fixed in the latest version of the liveusb-creator. Please reopen this bug if you still hit this problem, thanks! |