Mike, Just reread your question again. Note, the onboard eMMc is pretty well filled by the standard image as was referenced by the following query to the list.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/Out$20of$20space$20immediately$20after$20flash/beagleboard/etpYcY6aHHc/ceNDm_15s8YJ What you want to do in reality though is not so much resize the eMMC partition (though, I'd still use the provided tools to make as much space there as you can) as use the SD card to add space to your filesystem. Start by understanding how filesystems under unix generally are built. one has a number of volumes or partitions that are "mounted" in various places on the filesystem. Where you choose to mount these volumes really depends upon where you need the space. Normally you might mount a volume as /home if say you had a lot of users needing storage in their home directories or maybe you need more space for binaries so you'd mount a volume specifically for /bin or /sbin. sometimes you may have seperate volumes mounted for /var or others as well. Unfortunately on the black you're somewhat constrained with only the emmc and a single SD slot and if you need more than the 2GB provides across multiple mounts it may be easier to just use a SD card of sufficent size as your root filesystem to begin with. Generally most images put / and /boot on separate partitions. from there with a big enough card everything except /boot goes on the / partition. this makes things easy, especially for newcomers. While you could conceivably come up with a complex and elaborate partitioning scheme spread across many volumes and mounts with a usb hub and 49,000 usb drives, 42, 890 network mounts, and a paper tape punch/reader for storage (not literally... I'm demonstrating absurdity by being absurd) it may just get a bit unwieldy. The way I solved this problem was to spend about $20 on a 32GB microSD card which I boot from and use as my root filesystem. I can then setup the eMMC onboard as 2GB of space to use for such things as my personal home directory or whatever else I feel like. maybe the best option though is to install the absolute bare minimum small filesystem flash image found here http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-RootFileSystem%28smallflash%29 to eMMC and use an SD card as your "big" filesystem. that way the black still has someting minimal that boots and when you need it, you can boot to your huge filesystem from SD card. Eric On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > I recently flashed the BeagleBone Black 2GB eMMc card with Debian version > 2014-05-15 and resized the partition using "fdisk". The BBB will crash > after about 10 minutes of operation. I'd like to be able to boot via the > eMMc and use the space on the SD Card as part of the eMMc partition. Does > anyone have the steps documented as I may not be completing the resizing > correctly. Carefull, I'm a newby and only speak English; not Linux! > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > Mike > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
