So I attempted to expand the partition on my 4 GB SD card (yes these still exist) according to http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Felinux.org%2FBeagleboard%3ABeagleBoneBlack_Debian%23Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEeDwVst0WLU-HSqW-sghhCHyV0sg>, and got the following results. I didn't capture the output and the operation seems to have been irreversible, so sorry about the inexact report. This was while running Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone79 #1 SMP Tue Oct 13 20:44:55 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux from the eMMC.
Git pull didn't work because the board is not directly connected to the Internet because I am in a corporate setting and to get a hobbyist board wired to the corporate network would require multiple levels of slow approval. The grow_partition.sh script reported that it wrote a new partition, but failed to verify it, or something similar. Again, sorry for the lack of captured output. After grow_partition.sh ran, Beaglebone's df reported a 7.2 GB drive with 1.9 GB used and 5.0 GB free. On this 4 GB card. Yes, I rubbed my eyes. When I then inserted this card into an Ubuntu laptop, I got the same report out of df: 7281280 1K blocks total, 1934304 used, 4999784 available on the rootfs partition. When I attempt to dd another image to this SD card, dd fails after 780 MB is written. When I try to erase the partitions with cfdisk and create a new one, cfdisk offers a maximum of 780 MB. To my untrained eye it looks like grow_partition.sh has rendered this SD card partly inoperable. On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4:42:45 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > >> *I didn't expand the partition since it seemed that wouldn't accomplish >> anything; the image was a 4 GB image obtained from >> https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz >> >> <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz> >> >> that was actually about 3.6 GB in uncompressed size. The partition on the 4 >> GB SD card was slightly bigger than that. Would expanding the partition >> have materially changed anything?* > > > If your sdcard was larger than 4G of course it would have. > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I didn't expand the partition since it seemed that wouldn't accomplish >> anything; the image was a 4 GB image obtained from >> https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz >> >> that was actually about 3.6 GB in uncompressed size. The partition on the 4 >> GB SD card was slightly bigger than that. Would expanding the partition >> have materially changed anything? >> >> On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 1:39:06 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Seems that I figured it out, for others' reference. The SD card with >>> the >>> > Jessie image that I was running off was 4 GB and filled up quickly >>> (with >>> > what? logfiles? errorlogs?), so the disk indeed became full. >>> >>> Did you expand the image after booting? >>> >>> >>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD >>> >>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Felinux.org%2FBeagleboard%3ABeagleBoneBlack_Debian%23Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEeDwVst0WLU-HSqW-sghhCHyV0sg> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -- >>> Robert Nelson >>> https://rcn-ee.com/ >>> >> -- >> 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:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/b892e9cc-1c9a-4589-b653-ba1f408aeb6c%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/b892e9cc-1c9a-4589-b653-ba1f408aeb6c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/8bb1eadf-e1db-4288-9f70-2c7b4cc7ea3c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
