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Re: [ts-7000] Re: 2 GB SD image for 7390

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: 2 GB SD image for 7390
From: Larry W Howell <>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:48:14 -0400
hodge_bob wrote:
>  I always like replying to my own posts. I found the images for the
> 512Mb card on the ftp site, and the README there said that for the 2Gb
> card, just dd the 512Mb image on there, then resize the last partition.
> 
>  No problem, right?  Well, the 512M image went on there fine, and I
> have a working SD card again.  But, I'll be damned if I can figure out
> how to resize that partition. Apparently, the JFS driver on Ubuntu 
> appears to have no idea how to resize, since both parted and cfdisk
> give errors when I try.  I really need the extra room, since I have
> had some cross-compile issues that I've worked around by compiling on
> the target. 
> 
>  Has anyone does this resize?  Is there another distribution with a
> better JFS implementation that will resize correctly?  Am I doing
> something stupid?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bob 
> 

You need to install the "mtd-tools" package.  On my Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" system 
it's ver 20061007-1.  These utilities allow creation and manipulation of flash 
file systems.

Larry

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