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, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> 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. >>> 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/5afdd7b8-2435-4ad3-bff5-29bdd9e8f802%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/5afdd7b8-2435-4ad3-bff5-29bdd9e8f802%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/6a55a0e7-1621-4bf8-bd2c-75d3c1996425%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/6a55a0e7-1621-4bf8-bd2c-75d3c1996425%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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