Thanks for the information! A question would it be possible to do it automatically with qtparted or gparted for non linux expert?
All the best / Best regards Y. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Geert Stappers <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 20100208 om 12:10 schreef yellow protoss: > > Hello, > > > > The dd if=debian-live.img of=/dev/sda results in a bootable live-debian > > pendrive, of 200-250Mb. > > Is there a way to resize it to full pendrive partition, of e.g. 1 > Gygabyte > > of my pendrive? > > > > I tried with gparted but this gparted screw all the partition, and kill > the > > fat16 and badly make a fat32, by error (or bug). No way to use it to > > resizing the debian-live fat16 bootable pendrive. > > > > Is there some tricks to make it? > > The command > dd if=debian-live.img of=/dev/sda > does infact three things: > * writing a bootsector, > * writing a partition table and > * writing the actual files into /dev/sda1 > > After that, you only should add partitions. And only without touching > the fresh created /dev/sda1. > > The added partitions can be used for persistent storage. > > > In other words: See /dev/sda1 as a (read-only) CDROM > and the other partitions as (write-able) disk space on the pendrive. > > > > > Thanks > > Regards > > > Groeten > Geert Stappers > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktwBskACgkQOSINbgwa/7vrIQCgt7g8GiZkIxy9B9VRKd5/uXvO > IvcAmgIkg8F59vyXLC/88/Y+Ny2HjZat > =PuBU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
