I personally do all this manually using dd, and fdisk in Linux. As I prefer
to use Linux tools, for Linux "stuff". But it can get a bit confusing if
you're not experienced with the tools.

dd to write zero's to the first 10M of the disk. Wipes out the MBR, and
partition table. Easily.
then dd the new image to the sdcard
Save older small sdcard, mount on your Linux x86 machine, as well as
install openssh-server on this machine if not already installed.
On the x86 machine place files that you want to keep in a regular users
home directory.
When the BBB is running the new image, install sshf, mount the x86's
regular user home directory, and copy files over that you require.


*Another option:*
 From your x86 Linux machine run an NFS share, which is then always mounted
to a directory inside the BBB's regular users home directory. Keep all
projects, and file here. That way, when it's time to move to a different
sdcard, or the sdcard gets old and dies. You still have the data safe on
your NFS server. Not to mention this will help keep the BBB from filling up
in the first place, and writing data to an NFS share all the time, is much
better than writing to an sdcard. All the time.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:27 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Just to be clear, windisk imager can rewrite over a 16GB uSD card that
>> already has an other image on it?*
>>
>
> If the image that's on it is unimportant, just format the disk first. Then
> write the new image to it.
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Kory De Angelo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear, windisk imager can rewrite over a 16GB uSD card that
>> already has an other image on it?
>>
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