I backed up an 8GB running Jessie install according to the directions on the foundation website.
I then restored the image to a new 8GB sd card - according to the foundation directions. The new card fails to boot because there is a problem:
bad geometry: block count exceeds size of device
After MUCH time I discovered my 8GB SD cards were not all the same - of eight 8GB cards, I have:
2 - 7,906,263,040 GB
4 - 7,948,206,080 GB
2 - 8,026,849,280 GB
This can lead to much woe. (as can be seen by doing a google search)
Request For Enhancement
Add an option to the raspi-config utility to expand to the full size of the sd card less x% or xx bytes.
If I had reduced by 2% I would have been able to restore any of those cards to any other of the cards with out the error.
juggledad
commented
8 years ago
I backed up an 8GB running Jessie install according to the directions on the foundation website. I then restored the image to a new 8GB sd card - according to the foundation directions. The new card fails to boot because there is a problem: bad geometry: block count exceeds size of device After MUCH time I discovered my 8GB SD cards were not all the same - of eight 8GB cards, I have: 2 - 7,906,263,040 GB 4 - 7,948,206,080 GB 2 - 8,026,849,280 GB
This can lead to much woe. (as can be seen by doing a google search)
Request For Enhancement
Add an option to the raspi-config utility to expand to the full size of the sd card less x% or xx bytes.
If I had reduced by 2% I would have been able to restore any of those cards to any other of the cards with out the error.
Thanks