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Empty space - top3b - 07-19-2016
Hi,
I burn an 32gb image on a 64gb card due to room request larger than available, now I was wondering if the free space(around 30gb) of my 64gb SD card can be formatted in a new FAT32 partion and used for general purpose.
If the answer will be yes, what kind of software should i use?
I've tried "Disk Management" on my ubuntu distro, but I continue having an error message like this:
ERROR CREATING PARTITION
Error creating partition on /dev/sdb: Command-line `parted --align optimal --script "/dev/sdb" "mkpart primary ext2 30767MiB 64155025407b"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
(udisks-error-quark, 0)
Any suggestion?
RE: Empty space - MarkHaysHarris777 - 07-19-2016
hi top3b, yes you may create a partition on the rest of the SD card (and mount it on your PineA64 too) with :
gparted
This tool exists on the images, and you can also find in on most gnu+linux distros.
gparted allows you to resize, move, create, format... partitions for use with linux.
marcushh777
RE: Empty space - Luke - 07-19-2016
Hi
You can do two things: 1) use the resize script /usr/local/sbin/resize_rootfs.sh or 2) use gparted GUI,
hope this helps
RE: Empty space - top3b - 07-19-2016
I've tried to use gparted, but it reports an unallocated space available of 59.75gb, without showing the partition table already present on the sd card.
Then, when i try to create a new partition, it pops up with an error message regarding the need to create before a partition table, but doing this, it will erase all data on the card.
RE: Empty space - MarkHaysHarris777 - 07-19-2016
(07-19-2016, 04:38 AM)top3b Wrote: I've tried to use gparted, but it reports an unallocated space available of 59.75gb, without showing the partition table already present on the sd card.
Then, when i try to create a new partition, it pops up with an error message regarding the need to create before a partition table, but doing this, it will erase all data on the card.
You're doing something wrong.
... pop the SD card into a gnu+linux computer and use gparted there.
marcushh777
RE: Empty space - Boring - 07-19-2016
(07-19-2016, 06:01 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:(07-19-2016, 04:38 AM)top3b Wrote: I've tried to use gparted, but it reports an unallocated space available of 59.75gb, without showing the partition table already present on the sd card.
Then, when i try to create a new partition, it pops up with an error message regarding the need to create before a partition table, but doing this, it will erase all data on the card.
You're doing something wrong.
... pop the SD card into a gnu+linux computer and use gparted there.
marcushh777
Hi Marcus. I also encountered problems using gparted on an android image. It reports an error on overlapping partitionsand then refuses to show the partitions. But Linux (Ubuntu 16.01) running as a VM guest on a windows 10 machine automatically mounts the partitions and doesn't report an error.
I'm a Linux noob (last experience was suse 6), so I might be doing something wrong.
RE: Empty space - top3b - 07-19-2016
Thank you Boring.
I have tried with a Chromixium distro,i will try VM on Mac OSX next days and then i let you know.
See U
RE: Empty space - top3b - 07-23-2016
Hi mates,
I've tried also with VM, but the problem persist.
I read on internet that gparted "Can't have overlapping partitions", what i found is that the primary partition is located within the extended partition. This means that a primary partition uses part of the extended partition, that isn't allowable. Only logical partitions can use parts of an extended partition. (source:http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=16373).
Can anyone solved changing the partition table?
RE: Empty space - pfeerick - 07-26-2016
(07-23-2016, 10:51 AM)top3b Wrote: Hi mates,
I've tried also with VM, but the problem persist.
I read on internet that gparted "Can't have overlapping partitions", what i found is that the primary partition is located within the extended partition. This means that a primary partition uses part of the extended partition, that isn't allowable. Only logical partitions can use parts of an extended partition. (source:http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=16373).
Can anyone solved changing the partition table?
What was the original image you wrote on the microSD? Was it one of the debian or ubuntu linux images, or is it a Android/Remix one?
RE: Empty space - top3b - 07-26-2016
Android rooted and Remix images burned on two different SD cards