Well, part of the problem is that you seem to be either mixing instructions
with others, or you're using an old
 flasher image. Robert's Debian images have not used a two partition layout
in quite some times now. As in ore than a year or two.

Also, check your link, as in reload the page. It no longer exists.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks! I'm sure I can wipe out the card clean and start over, and if
> everything fails, get a new one.
>
> My concern is that exactly following the instructions on
> elinux.org/Beagleboard yields a result that is (a) contrary to
> expectations and (b) potentially damaging to hardware. Moreover, it is
> insisted that this expansion step be followed.
>
> On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>>
>> There are a couple options here.
>>
>> First, you can use dd to wipe out the first 1M or more, to get rid of
>> both partitions. But I'd use this as a last resort.
>>
>> Second, you can use fdisk to delete that partition, and start over again.
>>
>> If that is a 4G card, and showing a 7.1G partition. Thats definitely
>> wrong, and needs to be dealt with. I've had it happen to me once or twice,
>> manipulating partitions manually. Not sure how exactly, but in each case it
>> was fixable.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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]> 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,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>> https://rcn-ee.com/
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