Pascal wrote: >Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : >> >> the sizes of the images, particularly in the >> case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be >> able to fit on a DVD or a CD. > >Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of >4.7 GB, like subsequent DVD images. Instead, they have a size of 4 GB >only. AFAIK, this is so that it can fit in a 4-GB USB stick or as a file >in a FAT filesystem.
Exactly designed to fit on a 4GB USB stick, yes. But otherwise sizes are designed to fit various optical media. I *have* pondered about doing slightly-undersized "DL-DVD" sized media again to fit on 8GB media, but not sure tbh... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
