On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Oliver Grawert <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, > Am Samstag, den 10.09.2016, 15:00 +0500 schrieb Omer Akram: > > Hi! > > > > I wanted to highlight that the beta image for RPi2 is 4000000000 > > bytes in size, so it does not flash on a 4Gb sdcard. My 4Gb sdcard > > have 3,967,811,584 bytes in total. Currently I resized the ubuntu- > > core image with gparted, I reduced the size of writable partition > > 30Mb and the image size became exactly 3,967,811,584 bytes. > > > > I was not sure where to report a bug for this, if there is a better > > place, please let me know and I'll report a bug there. > > > > Hopefully this will be fixed for the RC image. > > > > theoretically the image could be (uncompressed) below 500MB it is just > filled with (IMHO pointless) zeros today due to the use of sparse files > ... > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619362 > > there is nothing at the end off the image (the GPT backup that usually > sits there gets re-created on first boot anyway when we check if the > image is resizable) so technically you can just dd it and ignore the > error it will throw without any actual drawbacks, no need to resize in > advance since gparted will only move these zeros around. > I had tried that, it fails to boot, also the writable partition does not even mount on my desktop if dd fails, due to lack of space. > > ciao > oli > -- > Devices mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.snapcraft.io/ > mailman/listinfo/devices > >
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