Bug 652709 - persistent overlay space is much smaller than the size of the usb
Summary: persistent overlay space is much smaller than the size of the usb
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: liveusb-creator
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Luke Macken
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthr...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-12 15:47 UTC by schneidzusa
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 18:56:07 UTC
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Description schneidzusa 2010-11-12 15:47:43 UTC
Description of problem:
after creating a live-usb with a 6.5 gb persistent overlay file, only about .5 gb of it is usable which limits the amount of packages i can install as well as drastically reduces the amount of files i can save on the usb.


How reproducible:
had this problem since fc-11-live:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=237305

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in fedora-13 i use gparted to format and create a /dev/sdc1 (8 gb).
2. i use liveusb-creator to create a live-usb from a downloaded fedora-14 iso (the persistent overlay slider is slid all the way to the right (about 6.8 gb).
3. i reboot using the live-usb and after a few 'yum install's i run out of space.
  
Actual results:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ uname -a -m -p
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 18 23:57:44 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw   3.0G  2.8G  211M  93% /
tmpfs                 436M  136K  436M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1             7.4G  1.7G  5.4G  24% /mnt/live
varcacheyum           436M     0  436M   0% /var/cache/yum
/tmp                  436M   16K  436M   1% /tmp
vartmp                436M     0  436M   0% /var/tmp

Expected results:
i expect that the '/' filesystem would have more than 6 gb of space left.

Additional info:
this is after a 'yum install gcc'.
if i install another big package such as open-office i would get a 'no space left on device' error.

Comment 1 schneidzusa 2010-11-12 15:51:49 UTC
1. fyi: the usb is formatted as ext2

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