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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Chris, I'll have to look into this and must confess I'm am a rank amateur in the AllStar arena and the Linux world as well, so my questions may seem basic to more experienced folks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I appreciate your reply!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Steve G./N4TTY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> arm-allstar [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces@hamvoip.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christopher Kovacs via arm-allstar<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 07, 2016 12:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> ARM Allstar<br><b>Cc:</b> Christopher Kovacs<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [arm-allstar] Filesystem Sizing Issue<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Steve,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>You can use the image-backup.sh script. I am not sure what version that is on your node. The later versions will ask you the image size and you can specify the image size. The script will create a new image ans storing it to a usb-drive inserted in your node. From there, you can copy the image and use it to create a new sd card image. This image is based upon your current node. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I believe Doug has a how-to on this utility/feature.<br><br><br>73,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Chris<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Steve Garrison via arm-allstar <<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Just joined the list and would like to know if there is a way to NOT expand the file system to take up the entire SD card when using a RasPi.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The suggestion I find to “backup” your installation by creating an image of your installation runs into big problems if you have expanded the file system to use the entire card, then you make the image backup and then try to write that image to a card of the exact same size and are told you don’t have enough room.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m using Win32DiskImager to image and back up my SD cards, but unless I can limit the file system to say 8GB on a 16GB card, I won’t be able to make that image backup and then write that backed up image to another 16GB card.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Same goes for using larger size cards, even when there isn’t a real need to use a larger card. It just seems the better cards these days seem to come in the larger sizes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Steve G./N4TTY<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>arm-allstar mailing list<br><a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar" target="_blank">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a><br><br>Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - <a href="http://hamvoip.org" target="_blank">http://hamvoip.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>