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2010-11-21 , 10:50
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Originally Posted by Cue View Post
I've ordered an 8Gb microsd card to use purely for easy debian. I'm looking to increase the image size so that I can install some packages that I had some trouble with in the past. I found somebody else looking to do the same with instructions from matan but rebhana linked to qole suggesting not to go down this path.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1173

unfortunately rebhana's link is now broken so I looked for some advice on qole's site about the image size

http://qole.blogspot.com/2009/03/eas...50583668441770

I wish I understood how to do this. so do I partition the sd card and then untar the image into it? then install easy debian and make it point to that image?
I've corrected the link in my posting - thanks! The point was that you can't increase the image size on a FAT partition, so you should make an ext2 or ext3 partition on an sd card, but in order to make Maemo happy, it's advisable to also create a small FAT partition. Once you have an extra big ext2 partition, you can simple move the contents of your debian image into it. Tar and untar should be a safe method, but I'd assume that "cp -a" works as well. But I still don't have an sd card, so I cannot say for sure. I've also read that the ext2 partition should be mounted with
Code:
mount -t ext2 -o noatime,nodiratime ...
in order to reduce the wear out of the sd card.
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