2008/5/26 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few >> people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot >> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems. Has >> this happened to anyone else? The USB sticks were a variety of 1 GB and >> 2 GB models from various manufacturers and I've never had any issues >> with them before. > > Well, it happened to me, but after I pressed the "reset" button while doing > a massive yum install (the computer was frozen while playing with Compiz > during the install). (as a matter of fact, that happened to me twice, don't > remember why I used reset the second time). That happened once, and I assumed I'd overrun the size of the overlay -- didn't investigate further. Is there a check of any sort to make sure you don't overflow? There didn't used to be in the livecd-to-iso installer, and that would certainly corrupt file systems ... MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
