What does lsblk report for that scard ? On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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] >> > 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]. >>> 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/8bb1eadf-e1db-4288-9f70-2c7b4cc7ea3c%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. 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