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As long as that extra space remains usable, its OK with me.  I was afraid it 
would be permanently locked away and lost for any use.  I would hate to waste 
so much space...
        
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From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:
> 
> >>>>> zipped qemu disk image of BL 3.40. Unzipped it should expand to 100MB.
> >
> > Silly question.  Why is the unzipped .img so large?  100 meg is a little 
> > big for the otherwise petite BL...
> 
> Based on some previous experimentation with the looped filesystem BL3 is 
> using, which provides 20MB of space, I decided to give alot more for folks 
> to play around in.  So, I guess to try and make sure anyone trying this 
> out wouldn't run out of space.  Of course I could have made it smaller: I 
> don't think I'd want it to be any less than 50MB, since if one added all 
> possible add-ons to BL, things would be a bit tight even then.  But of 
> course 100MB is nothing in this age of 100 and 200GB HD's.  So, I tried to 
> strike a sort of balance: a 5 MB download is considered reasonable, even 
> over dialin, and have 100 spare MB's for a qemu image can be pretty 
> reasonably expected.  And it is unlikely that someone using this image 
> under a traditional BL scenario would fill up the filesystem: heaven 
> forbid anyone should try downloading a movie or alot of music files.  On 
> the issue of music, another nice coincidence of BL under qemu is that qemu 
> emulates SB sound hardware: likely Christof's SB sound package would even 
> enable sound under qemu?
> 
> James
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