Description of problem: I just tried putting the preview release onto a 2Gb USB stick that already had some other files on it, using a 1000Mb overlay. It seems that the process ran out of space and trashed the file system; it's hard to tell exactly what happened. Here's a trace: [mef@floopy Fedora-9-Preview-i686-Live-KDE]$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 1000 Fedora-9-Preview-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdb1 Verifying image... Fedora-9-Preview-i686-Live-KDE.iso: 3a717f845323e702d6e93265b7d86c85 Fragment sums: 97bbf1ace9f62a26a619db6bb4268ea18ca1dd3bfa4bb4b5b8c2a11887eb Fragment count: 20 100.0% The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. It is OK to use this media. Already set up as live image. Deleting old in fifteen seconds... Copying live image to USB stick Updating boot config file Initializing persistent overlay file dd: writing `/media/usbdev.dD3392/LiveOS/overlay-MEFOSTER-4705-EE9F': No space left on device 955+0 records in 954+0 records out 1001103360 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 153.513 s, 6.5 MB/s sed: couldn't flush /media/usbdev.dD3392/syslinux//sedFErm3w: No space left on device sed: couldn't flush /media/usbdev.dD3392/syslinux//sed2FsGfx: No space left on device Installing boot loader No free cluster 0 266247 write in copy: No space left on device s:/syslinux/ldlinux.sys: no match for target mmove: File "s:/ldlinux.sys" not found syslinux: warning: unable to move ldlinux.sys mattrib: File "s:/ldlinux.sys" not found syslinux: warning: failed to set system bit on ldlinux.sys USB stick set up as live image! And if I try to mount the stick now and "ls" it, it has no free space and I get the following ("hri2008" and "nijmegen-20080318" are pre-existing directories): [mef@floopy MEFOSTER]$ ls ls: cannot access syslin.ux: Input/output error ls: cannot access ë┬eit fb.f9: Input/output error ls: cannot access └t ┤╗.═δ: Input/output error ls: cannot access .f½Γ: Input/output error ■?▓>▓-|{ ?.f½Γ hri2008 -.s └t?┤?╗?.═?δ ë┬eit?fb.f9? ?(~f║?²m.┴f¡ nijmegen-20080318 ??syslin.ux Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): livecd-tools-015-1.fc9 Additional info: I had to recreate the file system on the stick in order to use it again.
Fixed in git
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This WORKSFORME in F9: $ livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --overlay-size-mb 1024 livecd-fedora-9-desktop-200805150852.iso /dev/sdb1 Unable to fit live image + overlay on available space on USB stick Size of live image: 688 Overlay size: 1024 Available space: 1663 Cleaning up to exit...