[RPi2] Ubuntu Core 16 beta image size

[Omer Akram]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 10.09.2016, 15:00 +0500 schrieb Omer Akram:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I wanted to highlight that the beta image for RPi2  is 4000000000
> > bytes in size, so it does not flash on a 4Gb sdcard. My 4Gb sdcard
> > have 3,967,811,584 bytes in total. Currently I resized the ubuntu-
> > core image with gparted, I reduced the size of writable partition
> > 30Mb and the image size became exactly 3,967,811,584 bytes.
> >
> > I was not sure where to report a bug for this, if there is a better
> > place, please let me know and I'll report a bug there.
> >
> > Hopefully this will be fixed for the RC image.
> >
>
> theoretically the image could be (uncompressed) below 500MB it is just
> filled with (IMHO pointless) zeros today due to the use of sparse files
> ...
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619362
>
> there is nothing at the end off the image (the GPT backup that usually
> sits there gets re-created on first boot anyway when we check if the
> image is resizable) so technically you can just dd it and ignore the
> error it will throw without any actual drawbacks, no need to resize in
> advance since gparted will only move these zeros around.
>

I had tried that, it fails to boot, also the writable partition does not
even mount on my desktop if dd fails, due to lack of space.

>
> ciao
>         oli
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