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How do I shrink an SD Card image?
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I imaged a 16 GB SD card using the dd command. The card however, does not have more than 4 GB of data on it across 2 partitions (FAT32 & ext3). I would like to transfer this image on to a 8GB SD card. How do I go about shrinking the image?
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Assuming Linux, something like this could be done: Attach the image to a loop device using . Do not mount any partitions. Using , shrink the first partition to less than 50% of original size. Move the second partition to the newly created free space…
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