Eric Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my earlier post. I will read the links and try again. FYI I've tried both flashing the eMMc and booting from the SD card (8GB in size). In both cases I have very little time to log into a terminal session. I have to SSH in via Putty. Ultimately I'd like to set up the BBB as an OpenVPN server and load in LXDE as a GUI. It sound like I should be able to do all on this from the SD card (space permitting). Thanks again, Eric. Michael
On Saturday, May 31, 2014 12:30:57 PM UTC-4, Eric wrote: > 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] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
