On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Dennis Cote <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Still no joy. :-(
>
> I am getting an error when writing the 4GB image to a 4 GB SD card.
>
> root@dennis-VirtualBox:/home/dennis/BBB/image-builder/deploy# xz -cd
> bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img.xz > /dev/sdd
> xz: (stdout): Write error: No space left on device
>
> I expanded the image to check its size and it comes back as 3.7GB which
> should fit.
>
> So I then unmounted the two partitions and copied the image file to the SD
> card (/dev/sdd) again. This also failed
>
> root@dennis-VirtualBox:/home/dennis/BBB/image-builder/deploy# cp
> bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img /dev/sdd
> cp: writing ‘/dev/sdd’: No space left on device
> cp: failed to extend ‘/dev/sdd’: No space left on device
>
> I then removed and reinserted the SD card. It mounted the BOOT partition on
> /dev/sdd1, but failed to mount the rootfs partition from /dev/sdd2 with the
> following error:
>
> Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at /media/dennis/rootfs: Command-line `mount -t
> "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdd2" "/media/dennis/rootfs"'
> exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/sdd2
>
> Next I checked the size of the SD card.

how about just plain old:

sudo dd if=./bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img of=/dev/sdd


> dennis@dennis-VirtualBox:~$ cat /sys/block/sdd/size
> 7626752
>
> I believe this is units of 512B blocks. This corresponds to 3.904 GB or
> 3.637 GiB.
>
> The image file size is:
>
> root@dennis-VirtualBox:/home/dennis/BBB/image-builder/deploy# ls -l
> bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dennis dennis 3932160000 Jan 15 12:26
> bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img
>
> This size is 3.932 GB or 3.662 GiB (i.e. the 3.7GB reported earlier).

Other than the fact i HATE debugging VMware/VirtualBox with a
passion.. What brand are these 4GB microSD cards?

The magic number I've been using is 3750, which is working on
SanDisk/Kingston/Samsung 4GB
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/tools/setup_sdcard.sh#L1540

>
> Therefore this image is slightly too large for my nominal 4GB SD card.
>
> Can this image be resized so that it is small enough to fit?
>
> I know that the armhf.com images are 2 GB. These can be copied to a larger
> SD card and then fdisk is used to resize the second partition to fill the SD
> card, and finally the filesystem is resized to match the new partition size.
> This seems like a better approach than arbitrarily reducing the image size
> to fit on undersized SD cards, though it is more complicated.

If you want a 2Gb image, pass the "--img" option vs the "img-4gb"
option to setup_sdcard.sh..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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