Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in kickstart.
Rahul
Rahul, so the liveusb-creator will work with the ext4 created livecds?
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in kickstart.
Rahul
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On Wednesday, May 20 2009, Rahul Sundaram said:
On 05/20/2009 12:43 PM, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
Comments anyone?
Fedora 11 Live CD's will use Ext4 by default but retain a small /boot partition formatted as Ext3. Since GRUB doesn't support LVM and Fedora uses LVM by default, a separate /boot is needed anyway. You can create a customized live cd with a different filesystem by using --fstype in kickstart.
This isn't entirely accurate. The live images themselves are entirely ext4. When you install them on a hard drive, we make an ext3 /boot and do some shuffling in anaconda.
The ext4 live image is compressed inside of a squashfs which is then placed on your USB stick which should be formatted either as vfat, ext2, or ext3. I don't believe that extlinux (which we use for booting ext* USB sticks with live images on them) supports ext4 yet
Jeremy
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:13 +0200, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
The Live Image itself is ext4. That is wrapped up in a squashfs file, and then the file and some boot loader files are placed either on a CD or on a USB device. The format of the USB device doesn't matter much, vfat, ext[2,3], etc.. so long as the bootloader can boot it. It does not have to match the filesystem that is in the squashfs image.
That clears that up, I create the usb img file from the iso using my own scripts, guess that is where I got confused.
On May 20, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:13 +0200, Williamson Grant wrote:
Should a livecd be created ext3 or ext4.
The reason I ask, is we tend offer the livecd's also as usb sticks, when I last tried the usb stick does not boot if the filesystem is ext4.
The Live Image itself is ext4. That is wrapped up in a squashfs file, and then the file and some boot loader files are placed either on a CD or on a USB device. The format of the USB device doesn't matter much, vfat, ext[2,3], etc.. so long as the bootloader can boot it. It does not have to match the filesystem that is in the squashfs image.
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