Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
Hello,
I would like to ask for support for USB Hard drives, not only for USB
keys. The reason is the limit in size of the USB keys, while and USB
hard drives offer more space and are cheaper compared to the sticks. I
think it's also confusing to limit the installation to sticks only: the
user expects other USB disc in general would work..
In the second place, I'll ask for a feature. It will not be a big
change:
We are now able to make liveCDs with a modified version of "remastersys"
which use the UDF filesystem for our cd images rather than a pure
iso9660 (genisoimage can make ISOs with UDF support). The UDF
filesystem, which can be bootable like a pure iso9660, allows us to
exceed the limit of 4,7GB of standard iso9660 filesystems for the
overall size and the 4,7GB for per-file sizes.
It would be nice if Usb Creator could let the user choose the "udf"
filesystem instead of assuming "iso9660" as default type for "mount".
Note that the "mount" system command will not complain about mounting
UDF images with "-t iso9660", but the size of big files will **NOT** be
reported correctly in this case. You must pass an explicit "-t udf" (and
not "-t auto") to mount for having file sizes reported correctly by the
system.
A simple way to implement an automatic filesystem detection for the user
would be to try to mount as "udf" first and, in case of error, try to
mount as "iso9660" or "auto".
thanks
** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Support for USB Hard drives and UDF image files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313877
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