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Partitions are individual divisions of hard disk drives. Drives may be split up in to multiple partitions, so that they act as if many drives were connected.

Multiple partitions allow for separation of files (e.g. system files vs. user data), and simplify independent multi-boot setups.

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using linux command line to format and partition an sd card for raspberry pi

I need help understanding how to format and partition and sd card for raspberry pi 4 from linux command line please. I have downloaded an iso image for raspian light (not noobs). Question: If I am not using noobs do I still need a fat32…
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Partitioning SD Card For Multiple OS

is it possible to partition the SD card and install 2 different OS on it? Rather than installing another OS onto a seperate SD card. I was just wondering as I'd like to be able to have openelec + XBMC as one operating system but as this OS doesn't…
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File Manager and fdisk report different partition sizes

I'm new to Raspberry Pi. The 8 GB SD card that came with my RPi 3 type B showed only 500 MB free, probably due to the pre-installed Mathematica (thanks WRI!). So I moved the card image to a 32 GB SD card using Win32 Disk Imager. I decided to use…
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Hide boot partition

My rpi sd is partitioned as so: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 8192 122879 57344 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdd2 122880 8519679 4198400 83 Linux /dev/sdd3 8519680 …
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What, besides the MBR, is on the start of a Raspberry Pi OS drive?

Short version: If the MBR is only 256 bytes and the partition table is 4 bytes, what fills all the space between the beginning of the device and the start of the first sector on it? More information: When I run sfdisk -l /dev/sda (which is the…
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