A USB KNoppix that can handle a 10GB+ Android sorce code download.

[Capricorny]

From everything I have experienced and read 4GB is the best a Knoppix USB install can handle (I really hope I'm wrong).

You are completely wrong. The 4GB limit is FAT32 file size - as long as you use FAT32 USB media, you must live with that limitation - but you don't really have to stay confined to FAT32.

And even with FAT32, you can mount several 4GB loop images expanding persistent store in 4GB chunks. When running from a USB stick, the base file system is mounted on /mnt-system, and free space is directly available. So if you have a 64 GB stick, and set up, say, 4 persistent stores on it, still only 20 GB is used (4x4 persistent+ 4 cloop), So you still have >40 GB available as FAT32 space, plus the Linux file systems on the persistent store instances.

Partitioning the USB drive, you can also setup other file systems.

For instance, running Knoppix from a small FAT32 partition on a USB3 harddisk, you can have a >900GB Linux partition mounted. I use a 1000GB USB3 disk this way for backup and portable computing.

[utu]

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Greetings, Capricorny.

A nice explanation of the 4 Gb Fat32 filesize limit.
We know that Reiserfs will remove this limitation,
and we now have this as an alternative for the persistence files.

But...why then does the creator stay with Fat32, anyway?
That is...what is the advantage of using Fat32 for part of bringing
Knoppix to life?

Respectfully.