[fedora-arm] Re: Fedora26 image size

On 04/05/2017 06:49 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> 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

I am using the server image. But I am not going to try them all to see
which ones are pushing the size limit of 4GB mSD cards.

I am 'simply' pointing out that a statement that the images fit on 4GB
cards (though I should also check that that is still in the installation
instructions), should work for all images.

And thank you for all you have done providing this distro!

>
>> 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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