Partitioning with KDE Partition Manager

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/05/12 19:28, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2012 12:01:58 Waleed Hamra wrote:
>> On 05/11/2012 11:01 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 11/05/12 17:05, Mark Fraser wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to repartition an SD card I've written an image to for use
>>>> on a
>>>> Raspberry Pi, but every time I try to do it the card gets messed up do
>>>> to auto
>>>> mount trying to mount the partitions even though I've told it not to. Any
>>>> ideas on how to do it?
>>> Would like to rewrite your post so that it is understandable as to what
>>> you trying to say?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>> he's trying to repartition an SD card, for use with the raspberry pi
>> (lucky him :P), but somehow, it gets messed up by auto mount. i don't
>> know what he means by this, why would mounting it mess it up?
> The Debian image is 2GB and comprises of /boot, / and swap partitions. I want
> to repartition it to use the whole of a 16GB card by moving swap to the end
> and enlarging the / partition.
>
> When I try to do this swap gets moved OK, but when it enlarges the /
> partition, it seems like something tries to auto mount the partition after
> which the card doesn't have a usable partition table.

To start things off - I have no idea what a "Raspberry Pi" is; nor if it 
is even relevant to the problem.

The first question is: what are you using to try and repartition this SD 
card?

(And an addendum to my first statement: I haven't a clue how different 
an SD card is to an USB memory stick [whatever]. The only SD thingie I 
know is wot is in my camera - and it is the camera wot formats it :-) .)

If you have already managed to partition the card with whatever 
application you used then you can repartition it again with the same 
application - BUT, BUT, my question is: are you able to afford to lose 
whatever is already on that card? If you can afford this - and therefore 
recreate the operating system which is now on it - then simply wipe the 
whole card clean and start afresh and re-install the os on it.

On the other hand, if you cannot lose the system then have you tried to 
use System Rescue CD version 2.3.1 (don't go past this version as they 
don't contain as many useful application as this 2.3.1) to repartition 
the card?

BC