From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 20 20:50:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECDB9CC2 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F585C89 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-165.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t5KKo00i000548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:50:02 -0500 Message-ID: <5585D1F8.6050006@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:56:15 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; 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> <55858B2C.4080004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55858B2C.4080004@gmail.com> 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 20:50:05 -0000 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 .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.