This is still a problem. In my case it is definitely an issue with the file size limitations of vfat. I tried to make a persistent usb with jaunty 9.04 beta DVD. Everything went fine and no errors were reported. The usb boots up fine but nothing is persistent across reboots. I went ahead and tried to recreate the USB from the live DVD but this time I looked more carefully at the log in ~/.usb-creator.log. I allocated 5 GB in usb-creator and here is the error in my log:
['dd', 'if=/dev/zero', 'bs=5378073556', 'of=/media/DIESEL/casper-rw', 'count=1'] dd: invalid number `5378073556' ['mkfs.ext3', '-F', '/media/DIESEL/casper-rw'] mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) mkfs.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size so it failed to create the casper-rw file, but no errors were reported in the gui. The gui indicated that the usb was created successfully and that I should reboot to use it. Ideally when vfat is being used the size should be automatically limited to 4GB with a note indicating why (otherwise you will have a bunch of new bug reports saying it won't let them use more than 4GB). At a minimum when there is an error like this with dd then usb-creator shouldn't exit without any indication that there was a problem. I will try again but use less than 4 GB just to confirm that it is the 4 GB size limit that is the problem. -- [Intepid] Ubuntu Live USB creator creates liveUSB's that are limited in size https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
