Write that information down . . .

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 9:17 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 12 May 2017 17:49:39 -0700, William Hermans
>> <[email protected]> declaimed the following:
>>
>> >By the way, similar to what Graham mentioned. Get a larger sdcard.
>> >Personally I use 16G sdcards( think we have some 32's as well ), and
>> resize
>> >the main partition to file the whole card. There are actually a few ways
>> to
>> >do this, for me the quickest was is to use fdisk. Basically it involves
>> >deleting the main partition, then recreating the same partition, but with
>> >no limitation on the end. Which will use the entirety of the sdcard.
>> >Something to note about this procedure. If you do not know what you're
>> >doing, it can be "dangerous". No, the card wont destroy your neighborhood
>> >or anything of that nature, but you can render the disk unreadable. e.g.
>> >lose your existing data.
>> >
>>
>>         On that point, I've found the most noticeable trap is that fdisk
>> defaults to creating the partition at 2048, but recent BBB images start at
>> (I recall) 8192.
>>
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> So you use file, and write all that information odwn.
>
>>
>>         If one doesn't reset the starting point, one either ends up
>> wiping part
>> of the boot configuration data, OR is unable to find the base of the file
>> system.
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