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Old 11-07-2006, 02:50 AM   #1
lbdgwgt
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determine size of a CF card partition


Hi all,

i have a doubt about determine the size of my partition in CF card.

so i make a single primary partition using the command
Code:
fdisk /dev/sdb
then format it
Code:
mkreiserfs -b 512 /dev/sdb
the result is:

Code:
#fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 523 MB, 523321344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectore/track,63 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device  Boot Start  End  Blocks     Id   System
/dev/sdb1           1   63  506016     83   Linux


# df -T /dev/sdb1

Filesystem    Type 1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 reiserfs    505860   2048    503812   1% /mnt/cf
why the results show different size?
actually i am doing project for making a small system linux system on it. So i want to make a image file first then work on it before copying to the CF card for the final step.

I also have a doubt how big should I make the image file? should it be as big as the whole CF card or only the primary partition?
and to where later on i should copy the image file? to /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1? any suggestion? i am little bit confused about partitioning? or it is not necessary also to make a partition?

thanks for the help for the newbie
 
Old 11-07-2006, 08:26 AM   #2
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I'm curious what steps you took to create your /dev/sdb1 partition. You can't create the partition by simply issuing the command:

fdisk /dev/sdb

That will just get you into the fdisk user interface and then you have to issue other commands to create your partition. Perhaps you could list the steps you went through while in fdisk to creat your partition?

Also /dev/sdb is your drive /dev/sdb1 is the first partition on that drive.
 
Old 11-09-2006, 05:44 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by fordeck
I'm curious what steps you took to create your /dev/sdb1 partition. You can't create the partition by simply issuing the command:

fdisk /dev/sdb

That will just get you into the fdisk user interface and then you have to issue other commands to create your partition. Perhaps you could list the steps you went through while in fdisk to creat your partition?

Also /dev/sdb is your drive /dev/sdb1 is the first partition on that drive.
i did the sdb1 partitioin by:
Code:
fdisk /dev/sdb
d (delete pertition)
n (new partition)
p (primary) 
1 (partition number 1)
(the size of partition)
anyway, my problem is already solved. I wanted to determine the card size since i want to make an image file for working in my computer first with the image file. i used to do like this:

Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=my_cf.img bs=... count=...
losetup /dev/loop0 my_cf.img
mkreiserfs /dev/loop0
but my frined suggest my this way:
Code:
mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=my_cf.img
so i get an image file with the same size of my CF card easily.
 
  


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