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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to reduce SD card image size?
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:51:43 -0000
--- In  "cheby2002" <> wrote:

you can only use dd on compatible devices. Why dont you just use cp -
a to copy your files across? If the fs is not full it may even be 
faster.

/js


>
> Hello!
> 
> I had a 1 GB image size of a SD card (Master SD card with 1001216 
> blocks) with Debian and several packages installed for a TS-7260. 
I 
> want to create a new SD cards with this image.
> 
> I have bought some 1 GB SD (same manufacturer as SD card image, 
but 
> with 964864 blocks), but this new SD cards have a quite different 
> size than the "Master SD card", so when I execute dd command I 
> obtain:
> 
> #dd if=image1GB.dd of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
> 947+0 Input registers
> 946+0 Output registers
> 
> Master image is bigger than SD card, so when I put it in the SBC 
and 
> start Linux there are a lot of bad inodes during e2fsck. Linux can 
> repair it and boot up, but when I reboot I have the same problem. 
> 
> I have tried to reduce image size on destination SD card using 
same 
> method than in the Wiki article( 
> http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/Copying%20Boot%20SDCard ) 
but 
> reducing partition size instead of growing it.
> 
> No good results have been obtained due to superblock specified a 
> size bigger than physical SD size (they don't match).
> 
> On the other hand, I have tried to copy this image in a 2 GB SD 
> card, reduce sdd3 partition size less than 1 GB (900 MB), create a 
> image of this card and copy it in a 1 GB SD card. No good results 
> have been obtained, because image have 2 GB size although there 
are 
> 1.1 GB free without partition.
> 
> I have tried to perform a "mke2fs" in sdd3, but all file system 
goes 
> to lost+found :-(
> 
> Had anybody this problem before? Can anybody put some light in 
this 
> darkness, please?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your collaboration!
> 
> Bye!
>




 
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