On 07/08/2010 11:41 PM, Abu Attar Musharih wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is good to have several methods available.
> Before installing 'gparted', I again use the native command dd,
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
> dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': No space left on device
> 15663105+0 records in
> 15663104+0 records out
> 8019509248 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2748.04 s, 2.9 MB/s
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> It seems OK up to this point. The 8G is there. However, partitioning
> with /sbin/fdisk and reformatting with mke2fs did not gave 8G.
>> mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 -L 8G-USB'
> The browser shows only 6.8 G free. I should probably format with FAT32
> OR perhaps the file browser of genome on FC7 failed to show the actual
> amount of free space.
I used livecd-iso-to-disk to install f13 on an 8gb flash.
$ df -k /sdc1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 7984216 3267344 4716872 41% /sdc1
$ mount | grep sdc1
/dev/sdc1 on /sdc1 type vfat (rw)
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 8195 MB, 8195670016 bytes
253 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15686 * 512 = 8031232 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00010690
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 1020 7999829 b W95 FAT32
$ ls /sdc1
BOOTEX.LOG* My_Music/ RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386*
EFI/ Packages/ RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc*
GPL* repodata/ RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64*
images/ RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora* RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64*
isolinux/ RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-primary* syslinux/
media.repo* RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-SPARC* TRANS.TBL*
So, perhaps vfat make more of the flash available for data
than ext3fs.
>
> Back to my main subject, I tried "livecd-iso-to-disk" for creating a
> live-boot stick.
> It did not work on my FC7, a couple of packages are missing
> (checkisomd5 and udevadm).
> The messages are
>
> ---------------------------------
> [root@localhost LiveOS]# ./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512
> /home/me/Download/Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1
> Verifying image...
> ./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 399: checkisomd5: command not found
> Are you SURE you want to continue?
> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
>
> ./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 50: udevadm: command not found
> basename: missing operand
> Try `basename --help' for more information.
> Partition isn't marked bootable!
> You can mark the partition as bootable with
> # /sbin/parted /dev//
> (parted) toggle N boot
> (parted) quit
> Cleaning up to exit...
> --------------------------------------
>
> Then, I got back using the dd and it is now OK.
>
> -----------------------
> dd if=Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb1
> 1382400+0 records in
> 1382400+0 records out
> 707788800 bytes (708 MB) copied, 589.826 s, 1.2 MB/s
> ------------------------
>
> Last step, just need to "chown" the mount point for the media to be
> writeable.
>
> root> chown username /media/disk/
>
> Thanks,
> AA
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