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13 questions linked to/from Is it possible to use partition UUID for root-parameter in cmdline.txt?
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Can the raspberry boot to an LVM root partition?
Before I start, I will say I have posted this on the Rpi forum as well. I don't normally cross-post but, having tried there and got nothing, I've come to my preferred knowledge centre.
I'm just ...
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How to make an image file from scratch
I want to make my own image file for a Raspberry Pi so I can copy any usable operating system to it and boot it. This way I'm also able to size down partitions or use other partition sizes.
Is it ...
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resize2fs: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p3
I need to duplicate SD for RPI, but if I use 32G SD than it might not fit on other 32G SD, so I'm forced to use 16G SD, but than I loose half of the SD size.
I followed the instruction in How can I ...
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PI-3 corrupted file system - run fsck on boot (Raspbian Stretch)
I'm using a RPi3 with Raspbian Stretch and I have problems with corrupt file system. I use the Raspberry in a system where a "clean shutdown" is not possible. So I want to run fsck on boot. I have ...
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Can't boot after adding a third partition to sd card
I am trying to create a third FAT32 partition on the SD card that consumes the free space on the card not used by the image. I want this instead of the root partition being resized.
Creating the ...
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Move rootfs to USB disk and use minimal SD card
I'm running Raspian on RPi3 from a 16GB SD card. Now I try to use a SSD connected by USB to hold the root / partition and copy the /boot partition to a smaller SD card that is 512MB. I can't get it ...
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My RPi 3 doesn't boot up to desktop
I tried running sudo fdisk -l, but I get
sudo: unable to resolve host (none): Connection refused
fdisk: cannot open /proc/partitions: No such file of directory found
I also tried running mount ...
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Pi 3 goes to emergency message when trying to boot from pi 2 hard drive, can I make it boot?
I have a raspberry pi 2 which I've had booting off a USB SSD hard drive for some time. Now I have bought a raspberry pi 3 and was hoping that it would be as simple as swapping the hard drive and ...
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Resizing partition on an external disk renders it unusable as a root partition?
I'm attempting to configure my raspberry pi 4 to boot from an external disk, and it works pretty well! I've configured it to boot from the partition ID I get from sudo blkid corresponding to my boot ...
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Matching your Raspberry Image into a smaller SD-Card size - using fsarchive and a fresh image on the smaller SD-Card
Everybody knows - by raspi-config we can expand the image to the borders of the ext4 partition of the SD-card, but shrinking is impossible.
This will generate copy problems, using a second SD-card to ...
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Make root 3GB partition on Raspbian Stretch
The Raspbian Stretch OS root partition should come as 3 GB. How can I make root as the 3 GB partition and the rest as a free partition.
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Adding OSMC to my SC card without destroying my loaded Raspbian OS
I reinstalled Raspbian OS many times trying to get the OpenCV libraries up and running. Now I'd like to add OSMC in a seperate partition without lossing the Raspian partition and the previously added ...
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Partition of raspberry pi on Ubuntu 16.04
When I booted raspbian on raspberry pi, the name of partition is
/dev/mmcblk0
But when I connect sd card via USB reader on Ubuntu 16.04, it shows a different name as
/dev/sdc
These sd cards are ...
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