F9 Live USB IO Errors

[Thibault North]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Mary Ellen Foster <foster at in.tum.de> wrote:
> 2008/5/26 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>:
>>> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
>>> people.  3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
>>> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.  Has
>>> this happened to anyone else?  The USB sticks were a variety of 1 GB and
>>> 2 GB models from various manufacturers and I've never had any issues
>>> with them before.
>>
>> Well, it happened to me, but after I pressed the "reset" button while doing
>> a massive yum install (the computer was frozen while playing with Compiz
>> during the install). (as a matter of fact, that happened to me twice, don't
>> remember why I used reset the second time).
>
> That happened once, and I assumed I'd overrun the size of the overlay
> -- didn't investigate further. Is there a check of any sort to make
> sure you don't overflow? There didn't used to be in the livecd-to-iso
> installer, and that would certainly corrupt file systems ...

Also happend to me. Freezed while updating. I Ctrl+C and rebooted, but
unable to restart.
There was place remaining on the disk.
>
> MEF
>
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