1M blocks work very very bad for me - it overloads the CPU but creation
takes forever on a 4G thumbdrive through a non-highspeed USB connection.
Worse - I can't stop the process because stopping the USB creator or
even killing dd doesn't clear the kernel buffers that are used in the
transfer. If I
This is fixed in Karmic. usb-creator calls dd with a block size of 1MB.
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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I didn't actually apply these patches directly. I updated mine (0.1.15)
manually. Read the man page of dd. The size of the file that dd creates
is equal to the product of the blocksize and the count. In the 0.1.11
the block size is 1 byte and the count is 'persist' (ie the number of
bytes you
jruss,
Thanks for the clarification in your comment in bug #302485. I took a
look at your patch your provided here but I ran into a few issues I have
questions about.
The patch you wrote was intended for usb-creator 0.1.11 however I am
still experiencing the same issues with version 0.1.16. I
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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@jruss No, the patches aren't in the final release. I am experiencing
this same issue.
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I am using the jaunty 9.04 beta live DVD to create a persistent USB
stick. Usb-creator is trying to create a single large block and is
failing as a result. Block sizes = 2G aren't allowed by dd. Here is the
error in my .usb-creator.log when I tried to create a 3.9 GB file:
['dd', 'if=/dev/zero',
** Attachment added: Path to use 1K as blocksize when creating persistence
file
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651049/persistencefile-creation-blocksize.patch
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** Attachment added: Limit the slider to the maximum size persistence file
that can actually be written
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651093/max-persistence-filesize.patch
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** Attachment added: Before patches: persistence file created when 5G file was
requeste with slider
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651174/persistence-size
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** Attachment added: dot-usb-creator.log showing error message and long
creation time
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651213/dot-usb-creator.log
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** Attachment added: Before patches: top shows cpu consumption creating large
persistence file
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651231/Screenshot-gruber%40gruber-laptop%3A%20%7E.png
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See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/313364
which reports the long creation time issue.
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** Attachment added: dot-usb-creator.log showing time improvement with
blocksize patch
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21651242/dot-usb-creator.log.after.log
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** Description changed:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
+
+ Does not affect Intrepid
usb-creator fails to create a persistence file as large as requested,
producing the message dd: writing `/media/disk/casper-rw': File too
large. Creating the largest file can take 3 hours 25 minutes.
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