Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 08:22:08 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk question Message-ID: <5586B909.2000700@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5585D37B.2000303@gmail.com> References: <558581A9.7010309@hiwaay.net> <55858B2C.4080004@gmail.com> <5585D1F8.6050006@hiwaay.net> <5585D37B.2000303@gmail.com>
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On 06/20/15 16:02, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 06/20/2015 02:49 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> On 06/20/15 10:54, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> A touch over 700 MB .... >> > I have experienced this problem before myself. > Basically, I had to manually take a look at the partition sizes > of source and partition the destination the same way. > The caveat was also that the source partition table area was not > the same as the destination's :( > So that wreaked havoc with what the firmware of the destination > thought was the partitioning scheme AFTER the dd from src to dest. > Someone showed me how to use the binary editor to fix the destination's > partition information. Unfortunately, I lost much email after drive crash > and replacement. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > No problema, it is easy enough to just dd a new install image if I want it, I was thinking of keeping this USB drive as a FreeBSD installer exclusively, & just updating the files on it when required, but it's not necessary. The disk booted & did what I wanted, so all is well. Thanks :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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