On the Ubuntu machine:

$ lsblk /dev/sdb
lsblk: /dev/sdb: not a block device
$ lsblk /dev/sdb1
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb1   8:17   1  96M  0 part /media/vladimir/BEAGLEBONE
$ lsblk /dev/sdb2
NAME MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb2   8:18   1  7.1G  0 part /media/vladimir/rootfs

On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 10:57:06 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:

> What does lsblk report for that scard ?
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov <
> [email protected] <javascript:>> 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/ 
>>>>>
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