fdisk question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/20/15 16:02, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 06/20/2015 02:49 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 06/20/15 10:54, jd1008 wrote:
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>>> On 06/20/2015 09:06 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>>> .... 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?
>>>
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>> A touch over 700 MB ....
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> 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.
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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 
:-) ....

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