SD card partition

[bobdabiulder]

Hi! I took my brand new Samsung 16 gb EVO class 10 micro SD card out, and put it in my computer because my new Raspberry pi 2 B was giving out of storage errors, and I wanted to diagnose the problem. I was stunned to find out that it claimed to only have 60mb of space, but a quick search online revealed that this is solely a partition. HOW do I get rid of the partition? I don't want my brand new micro SD card ruined & stuck with my Pi.

[kusti8]

Download this:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
And format it with size adjustment on.

[stderr]

Hi! I took my brand new Samsung 16 gb EVO class 10 micro SD card out, and put it in my computer because my new Raspberry pi 2 B was giving out of storage errors, and I wanted to diagnose the problem. I was stunned to find out that it claimed to only have 60mb of space, but a quick search online revealed that this is solely a partition. HOW do I get rid of the partition? I don't want my brand new micro SD card ruined & stuck with my Pi.

How is it ruined and stuck with your pi? I'm not sure how you got a 60meg partition on the sdcard, if you wrote the img file that is usually used to it, it would include a lot more than that. OTOH, the boot partition might be that size.

[MrEngman]

Hi! I took my brand new Samsung 16 gb EVO class 10 micro SD card out, and put it in my computer because my new Raspberry pi 2 B was giving out of storage errors, and I wanted to diagnose the problem. I was stunned to find out that it claimed to only have 60mb of space, but a quick search online revealed that this is solely a partition. HOW do I get rid of the partition? I don't want my brand new micro SD card ruined & stuck with my Pi.

How is it ruined and stuck with your pi? I'm not sure how you got a 60meg partition on the sdcard, if you wrote the img file that is usually used to it, it would include a lot more than that. OTOH, the boot partition might be that size.

If you look at the SD card in a windows system it only shows the first FAT partition which in general will be about 60MB depending on the OS installed. The second partition will not be visible on a windows system unless you have a program capable of recognising linux partitions.


MrEngman

[stderr]

How is it ruined and stuck with your pi? I'm not sure how you got a 60meg partition on the sdcard, if you wrote the img file that is usually used to it, it would include a lot more than that. OTOH, the boot partition might be that size.

If you look at the SD card in a windows system it only shows the first FAT partition which in general will be about 60MB depending on the OS installed. The second partition will not be visible on a windows system unless you have a program capable of recognising linux partitions.

Why didn't I think of that? In my defence, I did get that the /boot partition was about that size. But I guess I've just forgotten that Windows can't see anything but Windows.

[QuietZone]

Note that this is Rpi FAQ #00001.

[bobdabiulder]

Thanks. Every time I do something stupid (eg, accidentally connect two GPIO), it's the mSD card that I have to reformat. Uhhg!

[smilliken]

What is the maximum size of micro sd card the Raspberry Pi 2 will accept? It came with an 8, but wondering if one can go as high as 32 gb.

[DougieLawson]

There are no limits. Things get a bit more complex if you're trying to use NOOBS on a 64GB (or bigger) card.

[smilliken]

Thanks for the reply. Was going to place Raspbian Jesse on it.