04-02-2015, 02:05 AM
1. The resizing processes finish successfully without any error message?
Yes! Never any errors. The dd command creates an exact copy of my original 8Gb stick onto the 16Gb stick, in which I have 1 fat32 partition. The dd command divides the target 16Gb stick equally, with the first half containing an exact copy of the source, with the other half unallocated.
2 and 3. Yes!
4.
5. No. The problem is not so much creating or copying partitions. It's more to do with the limitation of the 4Gb file size for persistence.
Just looking at this again, I think I have confused myself with the way the original stick was created. The stick only has 1 partition. So I must have used unetbootin to create the live usb and selected the persistence file to be the maximum of 4Gb. After that, I installed approx 2Gb of programs which now leaves 2Gb of persistence space remaining. Total 8Gb.
DD'd to a 16Gb stick which equally divides the stick into 2 as stated above. Now I'm trying to utilize the unallocated 8Gb partition. I can't now delete the casper-rw file as this kills all my installed programs. So I'm trying to be able to install more programs or files that will fill up the 2Gb left of the original persistence file with any flow over contained in the unallocated 8Gb half of the stick. Obviously after formatting!
Not sure if this is even possible. I can of course go back and start over using a 16Gb stick in the first place as per the paragraph above, but then I need to reinstall and set up all my programs again and it is this aspect I'm attempting to avoid.
Any further thoughts and thanks for your help so far.
Yes! Never any errors. The dd command creates an exact copy of my original 8Gb stick onto the 16Gb stick, in which I have 1 fat32 partition. The dd command divides the target 16Gb stick equally, with the first half containing an exact copy of the source, with the other half unallocated.
2 and 3. Yes!
4.
Code:
linuxlite@linuxlite-Aspire-E1-571:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
[sudo] password for linuxlite:
Disk /dev/sdd: 15.6 GB, 15631122432 bytes
35 heads, 21 sectors/track, 41536 cylinders, total 30529536 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 32 15633407 7816688 b W95 FAT32
linuxlite@linuxlite-Aspire-E1-571:~$5. No. The problem is not so much creating or copying partitions. It's more to do with the limitation of the 4Gb file size for persistence.
Just looking at this again, I think I have confused myself with the way the original stick was created. The stick only has 1 partition. So I must have used unetbootin to create the live usb and selected the persistence file to be the maximum of 4Gb. After that, I installed approx 2Gb of programs which now leaves 2Gb of persistence space remaining. Total 8Gb.
DD'd to a 16Gb stick which equally divides the stick into 2 as stated above. Now I'm trying to utilize the unallocated 8Gb partition. I can't now delete the casper-rw file as this kills all my installed programs. So I'm trying to be able to install more programs or files that will fill up the 2Gb left of the original persistence file with any flow over contained in the unallocated 8Gb half of the stick. Obviously after formatting!
Not sure if this is even possible. I can of course go back and start over using a 16Gb stick in the first place as per the paragraph above, but then I need to reinstall and set up all my programs again and it is this aspect I'm attempting to avoid.
Any further thoughts and thanks for your help so far.