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Re: Installing System on Flash Drives
Hal Itosis #10059 05/22/10 09:06 AM
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Following your lead...

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Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ df -h /Volumes/Sword\ Of\ 1,000\ Truths
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s2  7.1Gi  3.4Gi  3.7Gi    48%    /Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths

Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ vsdbutil -c /Volumes/Sword\ Of\ 1,000\ Truths
No entry found for '/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths'.

Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ sudo du -hxd1 /Volumes/Sword\ Of\ 1,000\ Truths
324K	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/.fseventsd
 15M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/.TemporaryItems
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/.Trashes
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/.vol
 63M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Applications
3.9M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/bin
 72M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Clutter
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/cores
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/dev
545M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Downloads
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/home
8.2M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/kBase
423M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Library
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/net
  0B	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Network
164M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/private
2.6M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/sbin
1.6G	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/System
 31M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Users
359M	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/usr
 12K	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths/Volumes
3.3G	/Volumes/Sword Of 1,000 Truths

Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ time diskutil verifyVolume /Volumes/Sword\ Of\ 1,000\ Truths
Started verify/repair volume (filesystem) on disk disk1s2 Sword Of 1,000 Truths
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking Extents Overflow file
Checking Catalog file
Checking multi-linked files
Checking Catalog hierarchy
Checking Extended Attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
The volume Sword Of 1,000 Truths appears to be OK
[ + 0%..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% ] 
Finished verify/repair volume (filesystem) on disk disk1s2 Sword Of 1,000 Truths

real	0m18.063s
user	0m0.121s
sys	0m0.032s

du -hxd1 took 65 seconds to run.

I looked at vsdbutil -c in Bwana, but didn't really follow what I read; can you explain why my answer differs from yours?

> Anyway, once we measure all the hidden stuff too (seems i have a fat 4 gig /var/vm/sleepimage file to accommodate), i think trying this on a 8 gig disk would be way too tight.

In an extraneous e-mail from Ted Landau he mentioned running Snow Leopard on either an 8Gb or 16Gb flash drive, so I knew it could be done on an 8, but I was close to tearing my hair out, what with not being able to get the installation small enough, until I remembered to disable safe sleep and trash /var/vm/sleepimage.

My installation is (quite obviously) totally stripped down, but I can carry my deuced Mac(hina) in my shirt pocket, with everything I really need, if I choose to do so.

(Your response to dk about partitioning is appreciated; I didn't care to get into that issue yet again.)


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Re: Installing System on Flash Drives
Virtual1 #10060 05/22/10 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted By: Virtual1
Booting from such a flash drive does take awhile, but I have no good answer to the format time. Did you do a low level format? sounds like it. Takes a long time for a 16gb flash drive to zero.


Formatting the drive wasn't the time consumer. I don't recall the time used but choosing the one partition and formatting GUID was only a matter of minutes.

The actual system install took all the time and it was done having booted from the Snow Leopard disk.

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Re: Installing System on Flash Drives
artie505 #10061 05/22/10 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted By: artie505
I did the installation and much configuration on my FW HD and then cloned it over, retaining the installation on my FW (Edit: on a dedicated partition, of course) for future updates, etc;


That is something that I could do as I have a clone on a FW hard drive. The only difference is that I use Super Duper.

Originally Posted By: artie505
but working with it once it's booted is excruciatingly slow.


And that's a worrisome issue. It makes me wonder if I should just bite the bullet and get a couple of those very small HDs that are firewire powered.

Originally Posted By: artie505
I've absolutely -0- idea what happened with your icon, but if that was your only issue I suggest that you just live with it. (You can always change it if it's only a matter of aesthetics.)


Perhaps so. It's just that I'm always troubled when something very oddball happens and it is there for me to see. I start wondering "If that's what I can see, what has happened that I can't see?"

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Re: Installing System on Flash Drives
artie505 #10062 05/22/10 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted By: artie505
In an extraneous e-mail from Ted Landau he mentioned running Snow Leopard on either an 8Gb or 16Gb flash drive, so I knew it could be done on an 8, but I was close to tearing my hair out, what with not being able to get the installation small enough, until I remembered to disable safe sleep and trash /var/vm/sleepimage.

Ah, right you are... it appears in the first comment here:
...where Ted replies to himself, to update the article. I had forgotten about that sleepimage tidbit. (wonder if i should bother deleting mine or not). I notice that cnet has wrecked the urls in our posts there too. Here is mine again:
That one uses Pacifist in a sneaky way, to install Leopard on a 2 gig flash drive!!!

[edit: i just did a regular (albeit minimal) install off the SL DVD, as opposed to either cloning or tricks with Pacifist.]




Originally Posted By: artie505
I looked at vsdbutil -c in Bwana, but didn't really follow what I read; can you explain why my answer differs from yours?

It's just a way of officially unchecking the "Ignore ownerships on this volume" checkbox. [i mostly threw that in for Virtual1, since it was just discussed in another thread (upstairs).] You'll see it mentioned in that 2nd link as well.

Last edited by Hal Itosis; 05/22/10 10:43 AM. Reason: links & tweaks
Re: Installing System on Flash Drives
artie505 #10067 05/22/10 06:16 PM
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I've absolutely -0- idea what happened with your icon, but if that was your only issue I suggest that you just live with it. (You can always change it if it's only a matter of aesthetics.)

I work with a lot of drives (as if the vs db above didn't give THAT away!) and so far I've seen about 8 volumes revert back to the default drive icon.

I've found that I get info on them, and they show their correct icon in the info window. I select it, copy, and then immediately paste, and it's fixed. and does not break again. I presume it's an issue with leopard vs sl icon storage.


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