Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-18 Thread PeterMerchant
On 16/06/2020 07:27, PeterMerchant wrote: On 15/06/2020 22:46, Andrew wrote: I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for root) on the blank µSD card

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:27:51 BST PeterMerchant wrote: > On 15/06/2020 22:46, Andrew wrote: > > I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the > > entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table > > and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-16 Thread PeterMerchant
On 15/06/2020 22:46, Andrew wrote: I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for root) on the blank µSD card and copy everything using regular file copy

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-15 Thread Andrew
I've just remembered, for a Raspberry Pi you don't need to duplicate the entire contents of the µSD card - you can create a new partition table and filesystems (FAT32 for boot, EXT4 for root) on the blank µSD card and copy everything using regular file copy commands. You might need to edit what

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-15 Thread PeterMerchant
On 15/06/2020 11:36, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:06:01 BST Terry Coles wrote: Nowadays I try to avoid the problem by shrinking the original partition a bit before I dd it to create the image; you should be able to do it with GParted. Then, when I copy it to the new card,

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:06:01 BST Terry Coles wrote: > Nowadays I try to avoid the problem by shrinking the original partition a > bit before I dd it to create the image; you should be able to do it with > GParted. Then, when I copy it to the new card, the image should fit. I think I was

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:04:44 BST PeterMerchant wrote: > I am sure that I used the Raspbian operation to expand the filesystem when I > first used the card. Older versions of Raspbian used to leave it up to you to expand the filesystem. I never used to do it to prevent this very problem.

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 15:25:03 BST PeterMerchant wrote: > I have been trying to duplicate a 16GB MicroSD card to another and it > hasn't worked. The original was a TDK 16GB card, which I copied to my > computer with DD. > > I then tried to use DD to copy it to the Toshiba card, with an

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-10 Thread PeterMerchant
On 10/06/2020 15:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, So I tried to use etcher and it tells me that the image is too large for the destination card. Perhaps they're different sizes. Use ‘sudo lsblk -b’ to get a list of current block devices and their size in bytes. You can ignore the

Re: [Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > So I tried to use etcher and it tells me that the image is too large > for the destination card. Perhaps they're different sizes. Use ‘sudo lsblk -b’ to get a list of current block devices and their size in bytes. You can ignore the partitions. Gather the size of both SD cards and

[Dorset] Duplicating uSD cards

2020-06-10 Thread PeterMerchant
I have been trying to duplicate a 16GB  MicroSD card to another and it hasn't worked. The original was a TDK 16GB card, which I copied to my computer with DD. I then tried to use DD to copy it to the Toshiba card, with an error message [now lost]. So I tried to use etcher and it tells me that