Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-11-06's Pub Meet.

2018-11-08 Thread Terry Coles
On 07/11/2018 19:28, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: In discussing how I could duplicate my image for my raspberry Pi, Terry said that he had a script for WMT. I found that I could create an image with dd from my 'good' uSD card, and then use etcher to put it on a new card, albeit of a differe

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-11-06's Pub Meet.

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > I found that I could create an image with dd from my 'good' uSD card, > and then use etcher to put it on a new card, albeit of a different > size. A disk image, i.e. what dd(1) on /dev/sdc creates, has details about the location of partitions, etc., within it. This means you can writ

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-11-06's Pub Meet.

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Clive wrote: > I did not know you could 'slide' a partition, it worked well (thanks > Tim). I suspect Tim was right in that we both thought gparted wouldn't slide a partition so its new position overlapped its original one. It's perfectly doable, of course, just as memmove(3) does it for mem

Re: [Dorset] Links from 2018-11-06's Pub Meet.

2018-11-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 08:51, C Wills wrote: > I did not know you could 'slide' a partition, it worked well (thanks Tim). > I think I said I thought gparted couldn't do it, based on my (outdated) knowledge of parted. But hey, I'll take it! Tim. */ -- Next meeting at *new* venue: Bournemouth,

[Dorset] Links from 2018-11-06's Pub Meet.

2018-11-08 Thread C Wills
Good Morning. In another link from Tuesday Nights meeting, I asked what was the best way to move partitions without loosing data?  Ralph suggestion (backed by Tim) worked well and has had the required result. I needed to make space after the first partition (File System) to enable doubling the