This is what the instructions state on http://beagleboard.org/getting-started :
Update board with latest softwareStep #1: Download the latest software image Download the desired image from https://beagleboard.org/latest-images <http://beagleboard.org/latest-images>. and the above link, https://beagleboard.org/latest-images <http://beagleboard.org/latest-images> , is precisely where I got the image on the SD card in question from: Wheezy for BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black and SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green via microSD card - Debian 7.9 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green - 4GB SD) 2015-11-12 <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-12-4gb.img.xz> - more info <http://beagleboard.org/project/debian>- bmap <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-12-4gb.bmap>- sha256sum: f6e67ba01ff69d20f2c655f5e429c3e6c2398123bcd3d8d548460c597275d277 Why am I using 7.9 and not 8.4? Because I need kernel 3.8.x for the cape I am using. The cape is unsupported under 4.x kernels. So, why do you state "Robert's Debian images have not used a two partition layout in quite some times now"? Please explain. There were two partitions on the SD card that I flashed with the 7.9 image above. The smaller partition was the FAT32 one that shows up as a drive in Windows if I connect the Beaglebone to a Windows host with a USB cable. This smaller partition has mostly getting-started documents. If the 7.9 images are no longer supported, Beaglebone should say so and not suggest them as latest images. Also, can you please kindly explain "check your link, as in reload the page. It no longer exists"? I didn't put in a full link below to save space. The full link to the instructions that I followed that yielded an SD card with greatly diminished capacity was provided by Robert above in the second reply to the original post, http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 11:18:55 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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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