Rich Freeman on 9 Jan 2013 16:47:12 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Partitioning an SD Card


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Eric H. Johnson <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote:
> # ls /dev/sd
> # fdisk -u=sectors /dev/sdb1

This is incorrect.  The correct command is fdisk -u=sectors /dev/sdb -
no "1" at the end.

/dev/sdb1 IS the first partition on /dev/sdb.  If you run fdisk on it
then you end up creating partitions inside that partition.  Linux
displays these as /dev/sdb1p1 and so on.  When you create a filesystem
on /dev/sdb1 you overwrite the nested partition table, and so the
nested partitions go away.  I doubt you can boot off of nested
partitions.

What you want to do is create a partition table in /dev/sdb, and
however many partitions as you need.  Those will then show up as
/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, and so on.  You can create filesystems inside of
each.  You shouldn't see any partitions with a letter p in them.

Rich
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