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How to resize img file created with dd?

I have a DD image from a 4GB SD card that has two partitions, these two partitions are only using up about 800 MB and as such I wish to reduce the size of the img fie. Does anyone know of a way to remove the "free space" from the img file?
A_Porcupine
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Do you need to format a flash drive before dd an image to it?

Does dd or Windows Image Writer work regardless whether the target device was formatted or partitioned correctly? I'm trying to flash a Chromium OS build to a USB flash drive following these instructions.
Jader Dias
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Convert .vhd to .img on windows?

I have a .vhd virtual hard disk. I need to convert it to .img disk image. How can I do it? I have Windows 7 and VirtualBox at my disposal, can those tools help?
Tomáš Zato
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Edit bootable img file on Mac OS X

I have downloaded a bootable image of Ubuntu (7.95Gb .img file) for a Parallella (minicomputer), but its too big to fit on my 8GB micro sd card (which actually is only 7.8 GB!). I would like to remove some software from this image like Libre…
Mehdi Nellen
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Mount old MS-DOS .img on Linux

Is there a way to mount an old .img file that's most likely a copy of a CD-ROM made for MS-DOS on Linux? All attempts have failed yet. file sees it just as "data", fdisk -l only says 646,75 MiB, 678163456 bytes, 1324538 sectors Units: sectors of 1 *…
Richard Rosner
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Create a tar.gz from an image file (Linux or Mac)

Hi I have an img of a custom linux distro and I would like to convert it to a tar.gz file. (I am using Mac or Linux OS) What is the most straight forward way to do it? Thank you
Jibrilat
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How to convert a specific partition in a .vdi file to .img?

VBoxManage converts the whole disk to .img. But I want to write only one partition in the vdi image to a partition on my physical disk.
Pawan
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How do I install Ubuntu on an Intel iMac with no OS nor CD drive

What I want: Linux on an Intel iMac (Core Duo). What I have: An empty PC (17" Intel iMac) with broken CD drive. It's model A1173. This PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and an old Windows Vista partition. a USB flash drive and an Ubuntu ISO. Problems: No…
sinekonata
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How to burn an .img file under Linux?

I have an .img file, where file reports this: Files-11 On-Disk Structure Level 2 (ODS-2 OpenVMS file system) How do I burn that onto CD? The image is 621MB in size, so it should fit on a CD just fine. And I'd like to burn that under Linux.
polemon
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How do I extract images from an unknown file? (might be an .SO)

I have a file taken from an apk of an old videogame made for an old android phone. It has no file extension and is simply titled "images". MediaFire reads it as an .SO file, but I don't know if it's correct. 7zip just reads it as archive. I ran it…
Loldfish
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Creating an image of my hard drive

I've been thinking of making an image of my laptop's hard drive for backup purposes. What would be the best way of doing this? I know about dd but is there a more user-friendly way, perhaps a GUI front-end to dd?
bizarrechaos
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Is it possible to block images from a specific URL using the “hosts” file?

I want to block images in a website which is often unimportant ads uploaded to their server or host. Using inspect element I noticed the all these images was named with ad-[some number].jpg. I can’t use any extensions in my browser so is it possible…
Omar mah
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How do I resize a partition on an img file?

I have a puppy linux img that is 8gb but I need it to fit on a 6gb drive. How do I resize the ext2 partition on the img?
Benjily3
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Converting an IMA file to an IMG file

In a moment of extreme geekism, I've decided to install Windows 3.11 in Virtual Box. However, VirtualBox only accepts IMG files for floppy disks, and I've only been able to download IMA images of installation disks. Does someone knows a IMA to IMG…
Valentin Rocher
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Sync .IMG To Dropbox Without Reuploading Entire File When Changes Are Made?

I have an issue, which is that when I try to sync an .img file to Dropbox on Android (via DropSync app), the entire file is reuploaded when even a single byte is changed. This doesn't happen with other files. I get the same behavior when using the…
Enigma83
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