System partitions to hard disk

- 2017-12-20 WED -

Ted backing up existing Raspberry Pi 2 Debian system image, which entails a vfat parition and a root file system partition formatted as type ext4. Utility cfdisk shows . . .

                                          cfdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)

                                             Disk Drive: /dev/sde
                                       Size: 15811477504 bytes, 15.8 GB
                             Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 32   Cylinders: 15079

     Name             Flags          Part Type      FS Type                [Label]             Size (MB)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Pri/Log       Free Space                                      4.20      
     sde1                             Primary       vfat                   [boot]                  43.84     *
                                      Pri/Log       Free Space                                      0.21     *
     sde2                             Primary       ext4                                        15763.25








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                                     Create new partition from free space

Now looking to desktop PC (host system) disks for empty partitions, may be a couple unused on the hard disk holding Linux From Scratch book 8.1 work. Ted shrinking formatted 60GB /var from LFS project, shrinking this partition down to about 50GB. Ted now noting what is on the 43MB boot partition of the microSD card from Raspberry Pi 2 board on hand . . .

ted@localhost:/mnt/rpi-boot$ ls -l

total 21197
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   18693 Aug 21  2015 COPYING.linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1494 Nov 18  2015 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   18974 Aug 16 00:22 LICENSE.oracle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15660 May 15  2017 bcm2708-rpi-0-w.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15456 May 15  2017 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15197 May 15  2017 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   14916 May 15  2017 bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   16523 May 15  2017 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   17624 May 15  2017 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   16380 May 15  2017 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   50248 Aug 11 16:03 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     142 Jan  1  1980 cmdline.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1590 Aug 15 23:29 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    6688 Aug 11 16:03 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    2594 Aug 11 16:03 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    9834 Aug 11 16:03 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    9830 Aug 11 16:03 fixup_x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     145 Aug 16 00:22 issue.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4381216 Aug 11 16:03 kernel.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4581064 Aug 11 16:03 kernel7.img
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   10240 Aug 15 23:22 overlays
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2868132 Aug 11 16:03 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  666404 Aug 11 16:03 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5007204 Aug 11 16:03 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3952100 Aug 11 16:03 start_x.elf

ted@localhost:/mnt/rpi-boot$ cat issue.txt
Raspberry Pi reference 2017-08-16
Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, aaaf0aea13f1e4f0375c31c87d7389299228598d, stage2

ted@localhost:/mnt/rpi-boot$

References

• https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen

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