Live USB/Persistent USB Installs

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool. I tried to do it to my iPod earlier, but my iPod has a weird block
> size (2048 as opposed to 512). Not a huge deal, but it causes all
> libparted-based installers, including that of Ubuntu & co. to choke.

It makes sense that the iPod would be formatted this way to cut down
on allocated blocks.  Most iPods hold music, files of which are
generally 2KB or greater.  So, the iPod cuts down a lot on the inode
directory contents.  You could reformat the iPod with 512 byte block
sizes if you like.  If libparted is broken, it should be fixed to
handle these issues...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
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