On Monday, August 18, 2014 3:51:05 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
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> When I put the Debian 5-14-2014 SD card boot image on a 4GB SD card using 
> Win32 Disk Imager and
> boot from the SD card I only get a 2GB system. It does say on BB.org that 
> it is a 2GB image.
> Using df -h shows very little space left and when I tried to install 
> Adafruit BBIO I do not get past first
> step when I get a disk full write error.
>
> Interesting when I boot from the flash which is 4GB on the RevC board and 
> do df -h it shows a 4GB size of which
> 1.5GB is free and if I then insert the same SD card it mounts it as an 
> external drive and shows it as 4GB with 
> about half of it used indicating that Win32 disk image did use the whole 
> SD card size.
>
> How would one tell Debian to increase the boot size from 2GB to the whole 
> card when you boot from it.
> Things like fdisk will not let you modify a partition if you booted from 
> that partition and if I mount it as
> an external disk it already says it is 4GB and no need to change it.
>
> Or do we just need for BB.org to post a 4GB image for use in booting from 
> SD cards.
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> Thank's for any info
> Tom
>  
>  Robert
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      This brings up the question of does the same procedure to increase 
the size of the image work for the flash version of 5-14-2014
Seems if you were to download the flash version which is also only 2GB and 
flash the onboard flash with it you would again get only
a 2GB system, unless the flash process is smart enough to expand the image 
to use all 4GB of flash.
Not willing just yet to try that on my RevC board.
I am new to Linux and the flash seems to be a device like the SD card but I 
ask the experts here.
By the way increasing the size of the image to use all of the 4GB SD card 
also solved my issue with booting as a standalone system
and having the browser crash , it was running out of space we now know was 
the problem.

Tom 

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