Re: Fedora26 image size

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On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Back home where my pile of 8 and 16 GB mSD cards are. So I can do an image
> install to see how large the image actually is...

You don't state which image you're using. The Minimal image is
actually less than 2Gb

> Disk /dev/sdb: 7.4 GiB, 7969177600 bytes, 15564800 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0xd7636468
>
> Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1          2048   61439   59392   29M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sdb2  *      61440 1060863  999424  488M 83 Linux
> /dev/sdb3       1060864 2060287  999424  488M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sdb4       2060288 7919615 5859328  2.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>
>
> Could you possibly reduce the size of the / partition so that the total
> image is a bit smaller?
>
> Your image requires a 3.95GB mSD card.  7919615 512 byte sectors to be exact
> (or at least with the server image).
>
> I have LOTS of 4GB in the 3.8GB size.  For example the one I had with my
> traveling last week is 7774208 512 byte sectors.
>
> It is not like you have filled the / partition; there is unused space.  It
> would make your claim that a 4GB mSD card can be used for the image install
> more likely to be true.
>
> Or just state that better use work with a 8GB mSD card to avoid possible
> overwrite errors.
>
> My 2c worth.
>
> Oh, and interesting that F24 fdisk reports the xfs partition as swap?
>
> Robert
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