On Saturday 10 February 2018 15:12:21 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i proposed (poking with a long stick in the fog): > > > dd if=/dev/sdd bs=512 skip=16500703 count=66 \ > > > of=rock-img-shrunk.img seek=16500703 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Which was an instant return claiming 66 blocks had been copied. > > Yeah. Fast. But sufficient only if i did not miscalculate again. > The full copy with 131072 chunks of 64 KiB from fully unmounted > /dev/sdd* would be the safer variant. > > > gdisk is still fussing. > > gene@coyote:~/rock64.imgs$ gdisk -l rock-img-shrunk.img > > 7 262144 16500735 7.7 GiB 8300 root > > But at least we seem to have defaced the backup GPT which caused the > gdisk refusal after gdisk itself wrote it to that place. > > The file size of rock-img-shrunk.img should now be 8,448,393,728 > bytes. 8,448,393,728 IP added the comma's.> > If so, then it should be safe to let gdisk fix the problems which it > detected in the partition tables. But as said, this is of interest > mainly on the final storage device, where the backup GPT is a good > protection against mishaps by clumsy partition editors. > > > All three of these cards will boot the rock64, but two snags. > > [...] > > Oh, and 3. it did not autoresize part7 during the boot, so I am > > assuming a need to touch a file to make that happen again. > > Should the booted system do that ?
It does so on the initial boot. > Did i miss you mentioning this ? Maybe, and maybe I didn't mention it prior to this. Can I blame it on oldtimers? :( > Googling "rock64": The power of a 10 year old workstation in the size > of a credit card. Zero noise, i hope. It has a small sink that runs hot. No fan on it ATM. So yes, dead silent. I'll probably do it like the pi it will replace, I have a video card fan on it, very quiet. Due to the almost vanishingly short cable from a teeny breakout board on the pi's 40 pin gpio, the pi is upside down and the cable with the spi bus to the Mesa 7i90HD interface card is only about 3/4" long. It is after all running at 42 megabits one way, and 25 for the readback channel, 32 bit packets at a time. > > Many Thanks, Thomas Schmitt. > > Give your wife a big hug from little Thomas from germany. With only about 80 lbs of skin & bones left, COPD is taking her out eventually, the hugs are gentle and too far apart. > > Have a nice day :) > You too, and thanks. > Thomas -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
