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On Saturday, February 8, 2014 2:09:20 AM UTC-7, Ron Morgan wrote:
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> I got a shinny new bbb today.. havent stopped playing with for the last 9 
> hours.. so im kind of tired. 
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> I have a BBB runing debian 7.2 from a 8GB micro sd. 
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> all is working fine with debian, its running headless at the moment which 
> is fine with me. when I installed the debian image to the sd card, there 
> was some space "at the end of the card" that I wanted to reclame. I did a 
> little poking around and some thing is a ... odd. I could use some input. i 
> am not a total noob but im by no means an expert with linux. 
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> I ran df -h to find what was used and where
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> that looks fine.. then I ran fdisk -l to see what i could see. I am not 
> quite sure how to interprate this
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> 1 how does /dev/mmcblkboot0 and mmcblkboot1 not cotain a valid partition 
> table? what does that mean exactly? how does this boot without a valid 
> partition?
> 2 why or how, does the sd card boot start at 2048? and use a fat12? I have 
> never even heard of a fat 12 file system..
> 3 given the boot is starting where is it, and the 2nd primary is about 
> 3.6gb? I have a bout 3.7ish GB to make a partition out of? I think 8gb sd 
> is relly 7.39ish?
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> please double check my math.
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> how big should I make swap? I used to double the ram back in the when you 
> always had a swap disk.. but most boxes today have so much ram there is no 
> need and it has been like a million years from the last time I have worked 
> with something like .. this .. small... or with something that has this 
> amout of resoruces:)
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> thanks guys.. im going to bed, its 2 am. 
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