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[ts-7000] Re: How to reduce SD card image size?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to reduce SD card image size?
From: "cheby2002" <>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:52:52 -0000
I tried to use it, I can resize linux partition, but when I do 
e2fsck and resize2fs I have problems because physical space 
specified in superblock doesn't match with partition.

Thanks!

--- In  Larry <> wrote:
>
> You need to use the utility fdisk.
> Read the man page on it.
> 
> cheby2002 wrote:
> 
> > 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 
> > <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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