What is the purpose of filesystem.size on a LiveCD?
There is /casper/filesystem.squashfs on the most LiveCDs of Ubuntu and derivatives that apparently contains the size value of the filesystem tree before compression. Some LiveCD customization articles mention that this file needs to be present in order for the system to boot correctly, but I managed to run a casper-based LiveCD system without it. And grepping through the contents of the casper package I cannot find it either.
What is it for? Will I benefit from including it into my live distribution?
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There is /casper/filesystem.squashfs on the most LiveCDs of Ubuntu and derivatives that apparently contains the size value of the filesystem tree before compression. Some LiveCD customization articles mention that this file needs to be present in order for the system to boot correctly, but I managed to run a casper-based LiveCD system without it. And grepping through the contents of the casper package I cannot find it either.
What is it for? Will I benefit from including it into my live distribution?
live-usb live-cd
asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
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There is /casper/filesystem.squashfs on the most LiveCDs of Ubuntu and derivatives that apparently contains the size value of the filesystem tree before compression. Some LiveCD customization articles mention that this file needs to be present in order for the system to boot correctly, but I managed to run a casper-based LiveCD system without it. And grepping through the contents of the casper package I cannot find it either.
What is it for? Will I benefit from including it into my live distribution?
live-usb live-cd
asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
1156
There is /casper/filesystem.squashfs on the most LiveCDs of Ubuntu and derivatives that apparently contains the size value of the filesystem tree before compression. Some LiveCD customization articles mention that this file needs to be present in order for the system to boot correctly, but I managed to run a casper-based LiveCD system without it. And grepping through the contents of the casper package I cannot find it either.
What is it for? Will I benefit from including it into my live distribution?
live-usb live-cd
live-usb live-cd
asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
1156
asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
1156
asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
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asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
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asked 6 mins ago
Alexander SolovetsAlexander Solovets
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