peter12 Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Hello, this question is not armbian specific but I am dealing with it while using armbian. I have 8GB microsd card but my armbian is using just 1.5GB on it. Now I need to clone/copy this card. I use win32diskimager (on windows) but disadvantage this approach is, that it makes bytedata image file (all 8GB of the whole microsd card even with blank space) but my data have 1.5GB only. Is there any utility/software which makes image with 1.5GB only? I mean when I burn 8GB image size after that to another microsd card, it takes 5x more time to finish as if I could burn just 1.5GB image. I think it must be able to do it somehow, because armbian images has about 1.5GB only. Any help will be highly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivluca Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 You could resize the partition with gparted, but I don't know if is there an equivalent that runs under windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwe Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 And the most important link: https://www.armbian.com/search_gcse/ Moved topic, cause nothing to do with hardware/software h3 specific.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 13 hours ago, peter12 said: because armbian images has about 1.5GB only Depending on options at image creation time it can be even a lot lower. We calculate the size with some safety headroom in mind before putting partitions on the image: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/lib/debootstrap-ng.sh#L308-L333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter12 Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 thank you friends! you pointed me the right direction and it works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chwe Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Maybe, you could write a little tutorial about your procedure here? So that other might benefit from it? https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/forum/26-research-guides-tutorials/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter12 Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 On 10/24/2017 at 3:15 PM, chwe said: Maybe, you could write a little tutorial about your procedure here? So that other might benefit from it? https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/forum/26-research-guides-tutorials/ Done! Enjoy here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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