From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 20 15:47:59 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 365CA826 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:47:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com (mail-ie0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2F62F27 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:47:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by iefd2 with SMTP id d2so35190035ief.2 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:47:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nz0l9omAXYbl0YvRR+PB9HjvxK2hq4MUgmomHh2/sBA=; b=LY1xr2kh9P0nOUnjyenWLpMsKBCsipDPinbmiXPckiZQtcElg/Yk5lJyeV9uy2Sqa/ 4/S7NyJXxh6dkkK03ntQXgEJJ9QejhLme0Sn7jb73kPvK4kNGLXa5l7A6o+mqYP0XVWp Qq2IYlLXSJnWEOOfMMPVMQVc5fUekuaFL0LFuucIGi4sH13JgjNq88gUC3yPBw+688Wr DDUR29C8XJCOCMrdxLOOPUmmJ3D9LguVInyZ39+pZIumdZ3tEg8OWo+yQ5hq0wJXtY2V EnzkOJpurFewv/QfrBIP5zW46/xT2wgardGI9La0th18m4i064yd1dEVnaBpafCLXhcX CUQA== X-Received: by 10.50.138.74 with SMTP id qo10mr11373217igb.38.1434815278338; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a2sm3944933igx.3.2015.06.20.08.47.57 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55858B2C.4080004@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:47:56 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk question References: <558581A9.7010309@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <558581A9.7010309@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:47:59 -0000 On 06/20/2015 09:06 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... I just dd'ed the FreeBSD 9.3 RELEASE memstick image onto a 4 GB > USB drive. When I mount it, it shows 101% full, w/ about 717 MB of > stuff. The NetBSD folks often (for Raspberry Pi, for example) > recommend & provide examples of how to mess with the partition table > after dd'ing to restore 'full' USB drive capacity as noted by df w/o > messing up any of the other data in the stick. Is this feasible under > FreeBSD ? If so, has anyone tried/done it ? How did it go :-) ? Care > to post your commands that worked :-) ? TIA & have a good one .... > > Hi Bill, what is the size of the memstick image?