[RPi2] Ubuntu Core 16 beta image size

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 10 10:58:33 UTC 2016


hi,
Am Samstag, den 10.09.2016, 15:49 +0500 schrieb Omer Akram:
> > 
> > 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.

this is weird, the main partition table and vfat definitely sit at the
beginning of the disk, the only thing that could be corrupt (if there
was actual data) should be the end of the writable partition. 

what is your dd command ? 

ciao
	oli
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