l-m-c: Increase default image size? - linaro-dev

18 Aug 2011


      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]
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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
...