I'm not aware of any way to do this from within Windows, but can think of a
few ways to achieve your end goal. gparted I believe can do this, and
another way would be to do it manually with fdisk, mkfs, and  tar.


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GosJEP4RR_s/U_JXVsqK24I/AAAAAAAAAAw/m7TC4uhnI9g/s1600/Debian05142914SDboot.png>
> When I put the Debian 5-14-2014 SD card boot image on a 4GB SD card using
> Win32 Disk Imager and
> boot from the SD card I only get a 2GB system. It does say on BB.org that
> it is a 2GB image.
> Using df -h shows very little space left and when I tried to install
> Adafruit BBIO I do not get past first
> step when I get a disk full write error.
>
> Interesting when I boot from the flash which is 4GB on the RevC board and
> do df -h it shows a 4GB size of which
> 1.5GB is free and if I then insert the same SD card it mounts it as an
> external drive and shows it as 4GB with
> about half of it used indicating that Win32 disk image did use the whole
> SD card size.
>
> How would one tell Debian to increase the boot size from 2GB to the whole
> card when you boot from it.
> Things like fdisk will not let you modify a partition if you booted from
> that partition and if I mount it as
> an external disk it already says it is 4GB and no need to change it.
>
> Or do we just need for BB.org to post a 4GB image for use in booting from
> SD cards.
>
> Thank's for any info
> Tom
>
>
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