<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Not sure what you are referring to when you say compress. I want to make an image file that I can then put on other SD cards.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If I go to the trouble to set up AllStar on a SD card, I want an image of that file system that I can then copy to new SD cards so I can be ready to swap cards in seconds if need be because of a failure.<br><br><div>Steve G./N4TTY</div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 7, 2016, at 09:45, Amy Wilhelm via arm-allstar <<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div style="direction: inherit;">Try compressing the file system image after you generate it. It should compress rather well. </div><br>Sent from infinite squirrels at infinite keyboards</div><div><br>On Sep 7, 2016, at 4:42 AM, Steve Garrison via arm-allstar <<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Steve G./N4TTY<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span></span><br><span>arm-allstar mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - <a href="http://hamvoip.org">http://hamvoip.org</a></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span></span><br><span>arm-allstar mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar">http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Visit the BBB and RPi2 web page - <a href="http://hamvoip.org">http://hamvoip.org</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>