On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:26 PM, joelk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded the debian 7.9 console image
>> (bone-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img) and wrote it to a micro
>> sd card using dd:
>>
>> dd bs=4M if=bone-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img of=/dev/sdb
>>
>> I notice that after flashing, the sdb1 partition on the card begins at
>> sector 2048.  The original formatting of these cards have the data area
>> beginning at sector 8192 and other sd card images that I've written (e.g.
>> Raspbian Jessie) also start at sector 8192.  I was under the impression that
>> this was done to reduce the number of pages that have to be rewritten when
>> data is saved to the card.

BTW, 8192 is all mostly tied to fat, which we don't use anymore by default...

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey

under: "FAT optimization"

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
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