On Sunday 12 June 2022 at 17:11:45, Fred wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have some directories I want to back up to an SD card while preserving
> the permissions. I have tried to repartition a 64GB card and write an
> ext4 filesystem.

What is the existing partition table?

Out of interest, since this is ext4 and therefore Linux (not Windows), why
partiton at all? Why not just "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX"?

> fdisk says the card has 124702720 sectors and has 59.5GB available.
> However it will not make a partition over 27.5GB. Why and what to do?

What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sdX"?

Have you tried wiping the partition table and creating a new one?

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=10M count=10

Then use fdisk as usual - it will prompt you to create a new table.


Antony.

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