Hello all;
I have an 8GB uSD card with an ~6GB file system on it (boot +rootfs).
What I want to do is just image the 6GB portion that is actually formatted
and used.
I tried the windows tool and it didn't work. It imaged the entire disk.
Is there a switch in Linux DD or some other way to
Hi Bill,
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, William Pretty Security
bill.pre...@xplornet.com wrote:
Hello all;
I have an 8GB uSD card with an ~6GB file system on it (boot +rootfs).
What I want to do is just image the 6GB portion that is actually
formatted and used.
I tried the windows tool
: [beagleboard] 6GB image of 8GB uSD card?
Hi Bill,
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:39 AM, William Pretty Security
bill.pre...@xplornet.com wrote:
Hello all;
I have an 8GB uSD card with an ~6GB file system on it (boot +rootfs).
What I want to do is just image the 6GB portion that is actually formatted
From: William Pretty Security bill.pre...@xplornet.com
Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2014 at 1:09 PM
To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com beagleboard@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [beagleboard] 6GB image of 8GB uSD card?
Thanks
On 08/02/2014 10:39 AM, William Pretty Security wrote:
Hello all;
I have an 8GB uSD card with an ~6GB file system on it (boot +rootfs).
What I want to do is just image the 6GB portion that is actually
formatted and used.
I tried the windows tool and it didn't work. It imaged the
I still think using tar is better for this situation. Or perhaps I'm
misunderstanding something ? Something like this . . .
Your rootfs partition seems to be 6GB in size. Then you want to fill up the
remainder of the SD card after the initial boot partition gets what it
needs. You create both
Thanks Don;
Basically I created two partitions just like in the various tutorials.
Made the first one a FAT16, made it bootable, etc.
Then when it came time to make the EXT3 partition, instead of using the
default, which would have been the entire card
I gave it a size of 6000MB instead
