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So who is eating the spaces?
Many some disk-analyzing tools are needed here.

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Mikhail Maksimov <mcwillin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, list.
>
>> I suspect the number could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB size
>> check, but I have not tested that yet.
>
> No it can not. Tests done on alpha3 show that the system requires at least
> 2000 MB ("decimal" M) just to install with almost no free space left. Too
> bad Lubuntu is no longer lightweight in terms of disk footprint.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhail
>
> PS I know that the original letter is two weeks old :)
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> My workaround works!
>>
>> Replying to myself:
>>
>> On 05/01/2011 12:29 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>>
>> > There is a file within the Lubuntu 11.04 ISO called
>> > casper/filesystem.size but it seems to be unchanged since 2010-09-06 and
>> > I don't yet know what if anything actually uses it :)
>>
>> Based on Julien's very handy pointer to the commit that broke this for
>> us, I just edited the file casper/filesystem.size in the Lubuntu 11.04
>> ISO image to say
>>
>> 1370000000
>>
>> (a round-ish number about half the value that was previously in the
>> file, plus 50MB as a safety margin!) and then updated the md5sum.txt
>> file to reflect that edit, and created myself a modified ISO image from
>> the result.
>>
>> That's a pretty trivial change, but, unlike the official 11.04 image, it
>> installs and runs fine in a 3GB virtual disk, at least in my initial
>> testing here (under VirtualBox 4.0.6).
>>
>> So, we seem to have a code-free workaround :)  I suspect the number
>> could be lowered to around 900000000 for a 1.8GB size check, but I have
>> not tested that yet.
>>
>> I can make this "hacked" ISO available for download, but it is a bit
>> 'dubious' at this point from a support point of view, since it does not
>> 'say' anywhere in its menus etc. that I modified it!  I need it to refer
>> to itself as 11.04.jm1 or something, so it is clearly not the official
>> Lubuntu 11.04 version, if there is going to be much use of it.
>>
>> If anyone has an urgent need for this ISO image, let me know.  It is now
>> 1am here, and I have to go to work tomorrow (today!!) so I don't have
>> time to create the ".jm1" identified image right now... I need some sleep
>> :)
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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