[Live-demo] Space on DIsk - was GMT

[James Klassen]

Does the squashfs "file" need to live in the FAT filesystem?  Could it have
its own partition?

IIRC windows only recognizes the first partition on removable media so the
FAT partition would have to remain first, but Linux should be able to see
additional partitions.

On Jul 11, 2017 11:36 AM, "Brian M Hamlin" <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> Space on Disk :
>
>   there are several important decisions pending.. Interested participants
> may find a detailed disk-space accounting as part of the build process..
> Please see the build logs for some build, preferably post-Beta1 so we can
> discuss.
>  Second, we will have at least 8GB on a USB medium for upcoming events.
> The 4GB space limit comes from a file size the represents the stored file
> system. In some cases, this SquashFS file is not a limitation. Therefore,
> extra care ought to be taken to differentiate where a 4GB limit matters..
> best regards from Berkeley
>  --Brian
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:51:53 0200, Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
>
> On 2017-07-11 09:37, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>
>> Note that MB-system relies on GMT. 0 on removing the application - it has
>> a good installer and does not
>> take up a lot of place - no conflicts with other packages
>>
>
> GMT size is an issue in OSGeo-Live.
> gmt depends on gmt-gshhg & gmt-dcw to be truely useful (but are only
> Recommends due to their size), but gmt-dcw is not included due to disk
> space, see:
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/136
>
> And the related discussion with upstream:
>
> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/issues/972#note-3
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
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