On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 4:01 PM John Allwine <j...@pocketnc.com> wrote:
>
> What's the easiest way to create a Beaglebone flasher image file from a 
> running system? I currently use the 
> beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh script to directly write 
> to a microSD card. I then use dd to copy the microSD card to a file. I 
> currently only have a 32GB microSD card, though, so when I copy it the file 
> is 32GB. With compression that mostly goes away, but and I'd also like it to 
> work with smaller cards than that. Any ideas what the ideal solution is?


You should be able to use gparted to shrink the partition size down,
then just dd to the last sector used.. (untested in theory..)

Regards,


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