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1. #SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD INSTALL#
2. #SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD SOFTWARE#
3. #SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD WINDOWS#

There are also minimal distributions that approach the limits of CD, for exampleĪn imaging and recovery tool on both Linux and Windows. Now almost every major distribution has live CD option and some of them like "Maxi" edition but i would not call such a distribution "mini" -).

#SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD SOFTWARE#

Due to on-the-fly decompression, theĬD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD

they usually have a very good hardware detection. Limited to the total size of of either CD or DVD. The largest class of minimalist distributions are so called live CD. Most material is not current so you need to use it as a starting point for your Therefore I decided to devote this page to minimalist Linux distributions only. Well as as "safe" OS for browsing Internet. Minimalist distribution are very valuable as "guerilla" OS on corporate PCs as I amĬonvinced that Red Hat is harmful for educational purposes because of excessive

#SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD WINDOWS#

Microsoft Windows is used: installing and periodically patching the distribution.įorget about the fact that it is open source. It is just incomprehensible and can be used only the way Red Hat is bloated pig that is not that differentįrom Microsoft Windows. The number of large full-scale distributions for Linux is too big and they are They are the last stand for the users who value simplisity over complexity and resent With the commercialization of Linux increasing rapidly and the divide betweenįree and pay-for offerings widening, minidistributions reminds us about the "good List of Linux distributions that run from RAM - Wikipedia Minimalistic and Rescue Linux Distributions News (slightly skeptical) Educational society promoting " Back to basics" movement against IT overcomplexity Softpanorama May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle -) Reboot the RPi (yep its stupid but we’ve found a reboot to be needed even after removing and re-inserting the SD card), sudo startx, run gparted, select the USB drive and check the ext4 partition is locked again (mounted) and has its boot string back.Minimalistic and Rescue Linux Distributions Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘check’ (we’ve found this to be necessary to ensure the new partition size is correctly updated in the file system even though it should be done as part of the resize – kept us chasing constantly failed resizes for hours before we discovered this).įinally click the green arrow button to carry out the changes. Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘resize’ then enter the new size you want it to be. Right click the main ‘ext4’ partition and select ‘check’, then click the green tick and let it check the partition for you (this isn’t essential but its a good idea as if there are issues it will likely cause the resize to fail). Right click somewhere on the graphic and select ‘unmount’ first as operations can’t be carried out on a mounted partition. Then from the start menu select run and enter ‘gparted’ Resizing Your Main Partitionįrom the top bar devices drop down select “dev/sda” (or whatever your external USB adaptor has been called). To run it use ‘sudo startx’ to load the GUI as gparted needs root user privileges <<

#SSH INTO GPARTED LIVECD INSTALL#

Sudo apt-get install gparted Running gparted Installing gparted on the separate Raspbian SD card that will perform the change If you’d rather use a windows tool we’ve found that gparted just works whereas all of the windows based partition managers we tried don’t, so better to just get over the hassle factor and use the RPi to do this if you don’t have a separate Linux system. To do this you’ll need to put the SD card you want to work on in a USB to SD card adaptor and boot your RPi from a separate SD card. It can also be used to check and repair a SD card disk. ‘gparted’ is the graphical version of ‘parted’ and is the tool to use to resize the main partition used for raspbian (or you could use use parted if you prefer the command line of course!).