2g, 4g, 8g

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Sat Jan 8 23:40:17 EST 2011


On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:53 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> The images are matched to the size of the SD card they are
> to be installed onto.   (Well, actually they represent the smallest
> card we've encountered in that size, as all SD card models
> vary slightly in size.)
>
> There has been a recurring thread about always installing
> the 2GB image, and then resizing the filesystem on first
> boot to fill the SD card ( http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10040 ).
>
> You can always use a smaller image on a larger SD card,
> but until you resize the filesystem, you will be wasting part
> of the SD card.
>
> Cheers,
> wad
>

Thanks.
--
Sameer

> On Jan 8, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> What's the difference between 2g, 4g, and 8g images in
>> http://build.laptop.org/10.1.3/xo-1.5/os860/
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
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