Re: Problem of space when generate image

[Nicolas Turpault <n.turpault@init-sys.com>]

Here is a patch for lh_binary_usb-hdd to solve the image size problem. I 
just add the option -L to follow symbolic links at the du.

Nicolas.


Nicolas Turpault wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have a problem when I generate a hdd-usb image. The generate image is 
> not enough big.
>
> It fail at the cp line 210 of lh_binary_usb-hdd.
>
> When the image is generate lh_binary_usb-hdd do a "du" on binary folder 
> but there is symbolic links in this folder (in the doc folder) so the 
> size is wrong. So sometimes it's fail when he copy the binary folder on 
> the image.
>
>
> The solution I think is to add option -L in the "du" at the line 105 of 
> lh_binary_usb-hdd.
>
>
> For the moment I just do a hook to remove doc folder and it's work.
>
>
> Nicolas.

diff --git a/helpers/lh_binary_usb-hdd b/helpers/lh_binary_usb-hdd
index 8be8aed..6375347 100755
--- a/helpers/lh_binary_usb-hdd
+++ b/helpers/lh_binary_usb-hdd
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Everything which comes here needs to be cleaned up,
-DU_DIM="$(du -ms binary | cut -f1)"
+DU_DIM="$(du -Lms binary | cut -f1)"
 REAL_DIM="$(Calculate_partition_size ${DU_DIM} ${LH_BINARY_FILESYSTEM})"
 dd if=/dev/zero of=chroot/binary.img bs=1024k count=0 seek=${REAL_DIM}
 FREELO="$(${LH_LOSETUP} -f)"