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Bobbe	2009-05-27 , 15:45
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Originally Posted by arekieh

Pics/videos can be on the external card though cant they?

Of course

Thanks alot , so if i want 1gb how many cylinders do i put? Its defaulted at 15000 (500mb right?) so is it linear? like would i just put 30000 cylinders for ~960mb?

I don't putting it in cylinders, so when I run sfdisk I run it like this:

Code:

sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -uM

That way you can inform it in Megabytes, not cylinders. Just remember that the numbers, when prompted by sfdisk, should be informed in this order

Code:

starting_megabyte,size,partition_type

I kept informing it like starting_megabyte ending_megabyte partition_type, which of course wouldn't work. It just sounded more rational to me =)

Good luck with the process!

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