On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Mary Ellen Foster <foster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ... Also happend to me. Freezed while updating. I Ctrl+C and rebooted, but unable to restart. There was place remaining on the disk. > > 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 > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
