On 28/02/2019 18:06, Rob Morley wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:55:26 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>>
>> Looking at my Pi the card has two partitions. One is ext4 and is
>> mounted on /
>>
>> The other is on /boot, type vfat
>>
>> Now, as I understand it, the PI has no boot sector, so all you need
>> to do is partition a raw card with anbout 44M as VFAT, and the rest
>> as ext 4.
>>
>> Then copy your existing files from one to the other.
>>
>> You will need to patch the /etc/fstab on the new card to reflect the
>> blockids of the new partitions
>>
>> Or make the new  partition UUIDS the same as the old SD card
>>
>> Linux command blkid is your friend here.
>>
>>
> stick the card in a USB card reader then
> dd if=/dev/yourusb of=/home/yourname/somefile.img bs=4096
> swap cards and
> dd if=/home/yourname/somefile.img of=/dev/yourusb bs=4096
> no messing around with partitions required
>
except you will end up with a partition the same size you started with.


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