Partitions are individual divisions of hard disk drives. Drives may be split up in to multiple partitions, so that they act as if many drives were connected.
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Image of a 16Gb card containing unpartitioned space at the end: Truncating possible?
I wanted to prepare a distro for some friends.
As I didn't have anything else lying around, I used a 16Gb SD card.
I started with the default Debian Weezy 2Gb image and did not do any resizing.
Now, ...
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Partitioning SD Card For Multiple OS
is it possible to partition the SD card and install 2 different OS on it? Rather than installing another OS onto a seperate SD card. I was just wondering as I'd like to be able to have openelec + XBMC ...
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Raspberry Pi not booting at all with most images, but with some it does
I am having a very basic problem with my raspberry PI: It can't get it boot when I flash Images with dd on Linux nor with Win32 Image Writer on Windows.
I tried several *.img-images, such a as Arch, ...
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Can't resize partition, resize2fs fails
I'm using Raspbian from 2012-12-16 and using it, I can't resize my root partition. The raspi-config does call fdisk and it does write new partition table to sd card. After that resize2fs fails.
I ...
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Copy current SD image to larger SD card
So I got my new pi and the only free SD I had was 2GB. I couldn't hold off playing with it so it had to do for the time being. I loaded raspbmc and then spent time loading repositories, add-ons and ...
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can I use a disk larger than 320 GB with RPi?
I have a 500GB Toshiba 2.5' HD, which I formated using Debian Wheezy 64bit. I created 2 partitions (180GB and 320GB).
RPi would only recognize the first partition.
So, I tried creating the ...
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Custom recovery partition
I am working on a project where upgrades to the Raspberry PI will over HTTP, and the Raspberry PI will not be directly accessible (cannot just swap cards).
I would like to have a partition setup like ...
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How do I create and mount a partition using the remainder of my SD card?
I have seen instructions for resizing the partition here, but I do I create a whole new partition using the remaining space, and then mount it
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How can I resize my / (root) partition?
Even though my SD card is 16GB, the image I flashed onto it was only 2GB and now I can only see 2GB of storage space on the disk.
How can I resize the image so that I have more space on my root ...
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How do I resize my debian partition?
I've seen advice here for resizing, which is fine if you have another linux distribution to work with.
How can I do resize the partition otherwise? Are there any Windows tools for example?
