Editing Creating a large partition and booting off it
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Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my [[Nokia N900|N900]] it was the 1st one) | Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my [[Nokia N900|N900]] it was the 1st one) | ||
- | parted | + | parted /dev/mmcblk0 print |
- | + | parted /dev/mmcblk0 1 resize 1kb 25GB | |
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reboot | reboot | ||
- | Use fdisk to add the 4th partition right after the 1st one | + | Use fdisk to |
+ | # remove the first partition (Because parted makes it not end on a cylinder boundary) | ||
+ | # recreate the exactly same partition again (this time ending on a cylinder boundary) Make sure to specify "TYPE C" for vfat | ||
+ | # add the 4th partition right after the 1st one | ||
reboot | reboot |
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