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Re: [ts-7000] Re: How to copy SD card with different geometry?

To: whiffwaffle <>
Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: How to copy SD card with different geometry?
From: Angel Rodriguez <>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:58:36 +0000
Hello whiffwaffle and other,

First I have to admit that I am a newbie but why do you need all the 
partitions.  Why not just put it all in one partition?  

Why not just format the card and put the stuff from part3 into the new card?

Rod


Saturday, February 28, 2009, 1:45:45 PM, you wrote:

> --- In  "Breton M. Saunders"
> <> wrote:
>> 1) Get a linux x86 box, running something modern like ubuntu 8.04 or
> better.
>> 2) Get a linux compatible USB SD card reader.
>> 3) Put the source sd card in, and mount the linux partition.  Tar
> its 
>> contents up to a file in /tmp or something for archiving.
>> 4) Swap to the new sdcard.  Fdisk it, and ensure the partition
> layout is 
>> (roughly) the same - e.g. partition 3 is a linux one.
>> 5) mke2fs the target file system.
>> 6) Mount the target filesystem
>> 7) Untar the archive file's contents to the target partition.

> I have actually tried this but I'm not sure what partition 1 & 2 are
> or how to properly set them up. When I put the card in my PC, it
> mounts two of the partitions; the Linux partition and another
> partition (sdc2) as ext2 that contains the following:

> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  2048 2007-07-17 16:21 bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 2006-06-22 18:12 dev
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 1969-12-31 19:04 etc -> /mnt/root/etc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7024 2006-06-22 18:16 fbcon-cfb16.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6772 2006-06-22 18:16 fbgen.o
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 1969-12-31 19:01 home -> /mnt/root/home/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 1969-12-31 19:00 lib -> /mnt/root/lib
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3853 2008-04-29 15:24 linuxrc
> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2006-06-15 17:22 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  1024 2006-05-22 18:39 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 2007-07-19 13:19 onboardflash
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 1969-12-31 19:01 opt -> /mnt/root/opt/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 2006-05-18 19:40 proc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 1969-12-31 19:01 root -> /mnt/root/root
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 1969-12-31 19:00 sbin -> /mnt/root/sbin/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20708 2007-08-20 18:28 sdcard.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   235 2007-07-06 12:00 serial-shinit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     3 1969-12-31 19:00 serialsh.pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   218 2007-07-06 14:03 shinit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2503 1969-12-31 19:00 splash.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1281 2007-07-13 19:22 stage2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 1969-12-31 19:00 tmp -> /mnt/root/tmp/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6288 2007-02-28 16:58 ts7300fb.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5454 2007-07-18 19:32 ts7xxx.subr
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 1969-12-31 19:00 usr -> /mnt/root/usr
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 1969-12-31 19:00 var -> /mnt/root/var
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   275 1969-12-31 19:00 vid-shinit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     3 1969-12-31 19:00 vidsh.pid

> Do you know what these other two partitions are?


>> whiffwaffle wrote:
>> > SD card that works:
>> > Disk /dev/sdc: 1019 MB, 1019215872 bytes
>> > 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3888 cylinders
>> > Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
>> > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>> >
>> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> > /dev/sdc1               1           6        1520   da  Non-FS
> data
>> > /dev/sdc2               7          10        1024   da  Non-FS
> data
>> > /dev/sdc3              20        3850      980736   83  Linux
>> >





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