[DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
Hello, I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving the permissions. I have tried to repartition a 64GB card and write an ext4 filesystem. fdisk says the card has 124702720 sectors and has 59.5GB available. However it will not make a partition over 27.5GB. Why a

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving > the permissions. I have tried to repartition a 64GB card and write an > ext4 filesystem. What is the existing partition table? Out of interest, since this is

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
On 6/12/22 09:18, Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: Hello, I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving the permissions. I have tried to repartition a 64GB card and write an ext4 filesystem. What is the existing partition table?

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread ael via Dng
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700, Fred wrote: > On 6/12/22 09:18, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving > > > the permissions. I have tried to repartiti

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
On 6/12/22 13:48, ael wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700, Fred wrote: On 6/12/22 09:18, Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: Hello, I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving the permissions. I have tried to repartiti

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
On 6/12/22 14:09, Fred wrote: On 6/12/22 13:48, ael wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700, Fred wrote: On 6/12/22 09:18, Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: Hello, I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving the permis

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread tempforever
Fred wrote: > Hi, > As supplied the SD cards are intended to work with Windows.  Under > Linux only root can write to them and the ownership can not be > changed.  I want preserve permissions of data written to the card. > > root@aragog:# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb > Disk /dev/sdb: 27.48 GiB, 29504831

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
On 6/12/22 14:33, tempforever wrote: Fred wrote: Hi, As supplied the SD cards are intended to work with Windows.  Under Linux only root can write to them and the ownership can not be changed.  I want preserve permissions of data written to the card. root@aragog:# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /d

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-12 Thread Fred
On 6/12/22 14:09, Fred wrote: On 6/12/22 13:48, ael wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700, Fred wrote: On 6/12/22 09:18, Antony Stone wrote: On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote: Hello, I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving the permis