Great idea!

https://code.launchpad.net/~james-w/linaro-image-tools/increase-default-image-size/+merge/72038

Thanks,

James


On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:56:35 +0200, Dirk Behme <dirk.be...@googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> 
> Using linaro-media-create (version 
> linaro-image-tools_0.4.8-0ubuntu1~lucid1_all) to create an image the 
> default image size seems to be 2GB if no --image_size is given.
> 
> Creating an image (--image_file) with the recent 
> linaro-n-ubuntu-desktop-tar-20110817-0.tar.gz fails with tons of "No 
> space left on device" [1] while the hard disk space is still fine 
> (tested on different PCs).
> 
> It seems that the 2GB image file is loop mounted to 
> /tmp/xxx/root-disc/ and that 2GB is too small for recent Ubuntu 
> desktop images. The recent linaro-n-ubuntu-desktop 
> tar-20110817-0.tar.gz is compressed ~490MB while an older one (e.g. 
> linaro-n-ubuntu desktop-tar-20110628-1.tar.gz) was only ~430MB. With 
> this creating an image worked fine with the default 2GB image size.
> 
> Adding '--image-size 3G' fixes the issue.
> 
> What's about increasing the default image size of l-m-c if it's too 
> small for creating recent images?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Dirk
> 
> [1]
> 
> ...
> mv: cannot create regular file 
> `/tmp/tmpT4h0vR/root-disc/var/lib/dpkg/info/vim-tiny.md5sums': No 
> space left on device
> mv: cannot create regular file 
> `/tmp/tmpT4h0vR/root-disc/var/lib/dpkg/info/libnss3.postinst': No 
> space left on device
> mv: cannot create regular file 
> `/tmp/tmpT4h0vR/root-disc/var/lib/dpkg/info/ibus-table.md5sums': No 
> space left on device
> mv: cannot create regular file 
> `/tmp/tmpT4h0vR/root-disc/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.list': No space left 
> on device
> mv: cannot create regular file 
> `/tmp/tmpT4h0vR/root-disc/var/lib/dpkg/info/eog.list': No space left 
> on device
> ...
> 
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