Limiting the capacity of SD cards for the pi

I've looked at nano don't like it. If you've got a Linux box with a colour graphical screen of at least, say 1200 x 800 or thereabouts, you could do a lot worse than try the 'gedit' text editor: its fast, has a decent toolbox of editing tools and can edit multiple files at once. Full details are here:

Vi is almost guaranteed to be part of every Linux distribution, Its man page is pretty readable too. And there's version of it, vim, thats been ported to Windows.

Even one byte diff in card size really IS a problem. You can't use 'dd' if the dest card is smaller. I recently had this prob with cards by the same maker, just slightly different models. 32gb is "approximate" size, doesn't mean *exactly* the same size.

To shrink a PARTITION, the super-crude way is to yank the card out of the Pi and plug it into another Linux PC ... and use 'gparted'. Hard to do that on a card/partition that's "live" alas, hence the need to remove it and use another machine.

Once shrunk, as the boot/grub stuff is still there, it will USUALLY boot ok ... but run 'update-grub' immediately just to keep things that way.

I've taken to sizing partitions to leave a little bit of unused space at the end. In THEORY you can then use 'dd' and when it runs out of space on the smaller card, well, it was copying naught but zeros anyhow, nothing 'system'.

FFS this is three months old! WE solved it months ago.

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Ayn Rand.

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