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, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
