Indeed I get the open-source/unpaid paradigm and sincerely appreciate the contributions. But, if a version breaks something, as I here seem to have material proof, perhaps there should at least be disclaimers and not an urging to use that specific version with detailed instructions on how to do so.
So, where I got to with this particular SD card is as follows, which is beyond my knowledge of Linux, for which I apologize. I reformatted it in Windows in SD Formatter to FAT32, Windows can read and write and sees the 7.2 GB (the mystery of the extra space is perhaps simple—an 8 GB card with some bad blocks sold as 4 GB). I reformatted in every possible combination of options, then put a file on the SD card. lsblk on Ubuntu then reports 7.2 GB on /dev/sdb1. I can mount /dev/sdb1 on Ubuntu and read the file I wrote in Windows. When I run sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb, I see 780 MB of free space. (Before I did the Windows reformatting, I tried reformatting sdb in Linux, and I deleted the partitions that were previously formed by dd'ing the 7.9 image). When I run sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb1, I see 7.2 GB of free space. Yes, free space, despite being able to read, on the same machine at the same time, the file that's on the SD card. It seems to me that partition tables are corrupted, the portions that are seen by Linux/Ubuntu, and that they were corrupted by running grow_partition.sh on the Beaglebone earlier. And, that Ubuntu is confused by these tables and does not know how to recover. On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 11:50:44 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Vladimir Gusiatnikov > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > This is what the instructions state on > > http://beagleboard.org/getting-started : > > > > Update board with latest software > > > > Step #1: Download the latest software image > > > > Download the desired image from https://beagleboard.org/latest-images. > > > > > > and the above link, https://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 - more info - 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. > > in 8.4 you can do: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone79 > > There back to 3.8.x based kernel ;) > > > 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. > > On newer image's we use an *.img file instead of a hard-coded fat32 > partition... > > > If the 7.9 images are no longer supported, Beaglebone should say so and > not > > suggest them as latest images. > > "supported" is a loose term.. If you want 100% fully supported, you'll > need to bug someone who get's paid to do this. (i don't get $ for > it.) > > > > > 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 > > > 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/a97c5918-28b3-4ca4-bbcf-ca1bb0f72336%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
