Live USB/Persistent USB Installs

[Patrick C]

The parted devs are apparently already on it. (
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-June/001754.html)
Thanks for the technical explanation, though. I'm not really familiar
with
the way filesystems work or the significance of block sizes.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <
kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
> <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  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...
>
> Sorry, what I mean to say is file a bug with the parted developers
> explaining the issue...
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