Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
thanks. I will study this a bit. On 08/11/2014 09:41 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 10, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Thanks for all the help. And I figured out another way when you want a real clean card for dd of an image then xz for a compressed form for distribution. I did

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 10, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Thanks for all the help. And I figured out another way when you want a real > clean card for dd of an image then xz for a compressed form for distribution. > I did: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M > > and everything is gone. T

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/10/2014 05:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 9, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/08/2014 06:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 9, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 08/08/2014 06:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Unfortuately ther

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 06:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you >>> kind of can do it by changing the table type, say f

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 03:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. I forgot to address this specifically. First, you r

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/08/2014 02:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you > kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. I forgot to address this specifically. First, you really should delete the filesystem signatu

Re: SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 8, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is > no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by > changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. > > Also learned that the unused 4M

SOLVED? - Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am learning how to use parted in command line format. Unfortuately there is no such command to delete all partitions, though you kind of can do it by changing the table type, say from msdos to gpt. Also learned that the unused 4Mb I am seeing on most SD cards is for a reason. To get on the

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07Aug2014 16:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/07/2014 03:13 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: have a look at /sbin/cfdisk OK. One more to study. I was also told about gdisk. But all of these are command menu programs. Not one-liners. The nice 'one-liners' in kckstart files are just commands

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/07/2014 01:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It was fdisk that was complaining. Those messages aren't complaints, they're just informing you. (I'm not sure any more, but I think that at one time the space between the end of the partition and the cylin

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/07/2014 01:40 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It was fdisk that was complaining. Those messages aren't complaints, they're just informing you. (I'm not sure any more, but I think that at one time the space between the end of the partition and the cylinder boundary couldn't be used.) I sus

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Chris thanks for this detailed reply! On 08/07/2014 04:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder boundaries

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/07/2014 03:13 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 08/07/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recog

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. Gparted > did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on 'cylinder > boundaries'. FWIW cylinder boundaries are legacy and irrelevant, for either SSDs (inclu

Re: Command line for creating partitions

2014-08-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 08/07/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. > Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on > 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recognized > when I mounted the drive. I had