<Yes, optical media loading is slow. If it was loading over a gig of data you would really notice it even more. I was thinking that a cdrw may be more like a DVD in terms of larger data capacity but you have confirmed that the actual content on the cdrw is well less than normal CD capacity anyway.Sylvander wrote: It is somewhat slow, but I figured that was because it must load the files from a slow optical disk/drive.
This suggests that the missing 1.5GB reported by partview is either erroneous or caused by something like the file expansion process after loading CD data, or maybe caused by some artifact of the unusual way banksy is layered. Maybe both. Either way it looks like having a swap partition is necessary during a personalisation process that involves significant addition of data/programs. Less critical once running from the completed personal CD - but I still need to look closer at personal storage calculation and usage.
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There are good reasons why a lot of storage is consumed during that process - the /tmp/banksydistillor directory holds all of the added data ready to build into the new personal sfs, then it is formed into the new sfs which is also in /tmp, then that sfs is copied into an "isobuild" directory along with other necessary files (all of this also in /tmp) then that isobuild directory is compiled into the new iso (yet another large file sitting in /tmp). So you can see a heap of data accumulates in /tmp during the process.366MB is much smaller than the 8.5GB - 7.1 GB = 1.4 GB of free storage that disappears during the making of the ISO.
I think I can smarten the process somewhat to make it more thrifty on RAM. More testing to follow. Till then I suggest the USB swap partition trick may be the key.
Also - installing the banksy files to HDD definitely speeds booting (although I know you are not comfortable with that structure...)