GParted to resize your existing hard drive

See my other blog http://objectlayer.blogspot.ca/2012/09/gparted-to-resize-your-existing-hard.html

Windows has Minitool for sd card and for hard drive AOMEI
Partition the SD card in detail is here.
For the SD card is easier to do from PC most of laptop and desktop come with SD card reader. After partition and create uboot and uImage put it into target it could be phone or tablet or just a development target. The Minitool and Win32DiskImage make life much easier when create the new firmware on the SD card. Linux it is hard to remember all the commands.
At the end we read the SD card we should see 2 partitions at least for boot and kernel image:
kubuntu-vm:~/3.8.13-bone20_kernel_ubuntu12.04$ ls
boot  rootfs

kubuntu-vm:~/3.8.13-bone20_kernel_ubuntu12.04$ ls boot
MLO  u-boot.img  uEnv.txt

kubuntu-vm:~/3.8.13-bone20_kernel_ubuntu12.04$ ls rootfs
bin   dev  home  lost+found  mnt  proc  run   selinux  sys  usr
boot  etc  lib   media       opt  root  sbin  srv      tmp  var
kubuntu-vm:~/3.8.13-bone20_kernel_ubuntu12.04$ ls rootfs/lib/modules
3.8.13-bone20
this is the kernel version.

When load into the target it shows
root@ubuntu-armhf:/var/www# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise
root@ubuntu-armhf:/var/www# uname -a
Linux ubuntu-armhf 3.8.13-bone20 #1 SMP Wed May 29 10:49:26 UTC 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu-armhf:/var/www#