XO-1.5 image has more size than XO-1.0 with the same software

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Fri Jun 1 13:44:48 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Esteban Arias
<earias at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created image for XO-1.0 with gnome and XO-1.5 (2GB) with gnome.
>
> but, XO-1.5 image has more size than XO-1.0 ¿?¿?¿?¿? Do you know why?

The XO-1 filesystem (jffs2) compresses its files, and the XO-1.5
filesystem (ext4) does not.
This is why you can fit 1.3GB of files on the XO-1 NAND flash, which
is only 1GB in size.

Daniel



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