Make nanoBSD images slightly smaller
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When I use physdiskwrite to write a 2GB nanoBSD image to a SanDisk Ultra 2GB compact flash card I get the error:
2000158720/2001194496 bytes writtenWrite error after 2000158720 bytes.
This seems to be a "standard" error, as evidenced by blogs that document some people's installations. e.g.
http://haxrbyte.org/?m=201101
(This blog has the error clearly in the screen image, but no comment in the blog about why the error happened and if the resulting image actually worked)
I realise that nowadays some 2GB compact flash cards are only a little bit bigger than a "decimal" 2GB (2,000,000,000 bytes), rather than being a full 210241024*1024 bytes.
Is it reasonably easy to make the provided image sizes be up to a "decimal" GB bytes?
(e.g. 1,000,000,000 - 2,000,000,000 - 4,000,000,000 bytes)
This should not cause an issue for those with "full-sized" CF cards - there will just be a little less free space on each slice of the resulting image.
This would save a lot of people having to ask about this issue when they are writing images to CF cards. -
@http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=633:
Lowered size of CF images to again fix on newer and ever-shrinking CF cards.
;D
Steve
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Well - that's the quickest fix ever! I have downloaded the pFsense 2.0.1 2GB nanobsd image and written it to a Sandisk Ultra 2GB CompactFlash card. It fits - success. The size is now less than 2,000,000,000 decimal bytes, so hopefully it will forevermore fit on anyone's definition of a 2GB card. Thanks.
