How to make new partition on SD for media files ?

[kbarb]

Thanks very much for that.

So I thought I could reinstall Xbian (if necessary) to just a partition using perhaps Win32DiskImager.
But it sounds like that wouldn't work (?) - has to be to the whole card.

If that's the case, I think I'll either :

1. abandon my partitoning idea, as the media files are all backed up elsewhere.
2. just get a separate USB stick for the media files until the NAS is online.
   

About the formatting . . . . I meant either EXt4 or NFS (not NTFS).
Is there a preference there ?
I hear NFS is less chatty, but I think the main concern there is if the files are on a NAS, so as to cut down on network traffic.

Thanks a lot for the help !

ps: I added a link for my #3 option in my orig. post - about the "Add noresizesd to the cmdline.txt."