| Michael Lazin on 9 Jan 2013 19:18:43 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Partitioning an SD Card |
Rich,
Thanks, that got it. I could swear I tried that and got an error, but it
worked this time.
Regards,
Eric
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.
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