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Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
Yes, the above should work - it's a bit wierd though, as your first partition is now physically located on the card after the second partition, but that shouldn't be a problem. The only minor issue is that you've specified that partition #1 is a Linux partition (it should be FAT), and partition #2 is a FAT16 (,6) partition (it should be Linux). Again this shouldn't be a problem as I'm guessing the format routines will put the correct filesystem on to the partitions - when you run nupgrade.sh 0 it will put ext2 on the second partition irrespective of what sfdisk thinks the partition type is.

I imagine that sfdisk still states that parititon #1 is Linux and partition #2 is FAT16 even though they've been formatted with the FAT and Linux (ext2) respectively.
Milhouse: I believe you are right in your assumption that nupgrade.sh 0 corrected my mis-designation of the file types for each partition. In fact, my partition 1 (for data) now indicates that it's FAT32.

You may (or may not) though have misunderstood what I perceived to be my earlier dilemma. Partition 1, which is intended to be the FAT data storage partition, was being limited to roughly .5 GB's, while Partition 2, on which the clone resides, was given all the rest of the card memory available, in my case roughly 3.5 GB's. I was thus losing all the useful data memory for which I purchased the larger capacity card. In my earlier dual-boot cloning with my 2 GB card, which I had in my external slot (not the internal slot that currently houses my 4 GB card), I again followed your instructions precisely, but this partition dichotomy didn't seem to occur. (If it had, the Partition 1 data space would again have been limited to .5 GB and the Petition 2 clone space to an unnecessarily large 1.5 GB. But I don't recall that that was the case (unless I didn't notice it, which I doubt). I recall having had an approximate Petition 1 data space of 1.5 GB. So, I don't know what happened in this latter 4 GB card attempt. (I've since reformatted my former 2 GB card, so I can't now check that to be sure.)

I hope I'm making myself sufficiently clear here. If I'd been formatting a 1 GB card, nothing would have mattered, as both partitions would have been the same size. Anyway, many thanks for your response and thinking this through with me. Regards, Jim