Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

[Matt Thyer]

On 9 October 2011 19:54, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to
> work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at
> the end of the memstick.
>
> Partition is just big enough to hold the data, and I ran out of inodes at
> times due to the installer writing to /tmp on the memstick.
>
> Maybe a script to put a backup GPT at the end on the memstick, and make the
> second partition fill the space available so as not to be too tightly
> squeezed?
>

A script is a kludge.

As we have no need for larger than 2TiB install images we should use the
POLA and continue to support dd writing our memstick images which means
don't use GPT for them.