On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:16 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sounds like a crappy microSD card, as grow_partition calls' sfdisk: >> >> sudo sfdisk --unit M ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ >> 1,,L,* >> __EOF__ >> >> So if ^ is enough to corrupt your microSD card's, throw them away, as >> they useless... > > > I ran into this problem once too Robert while manually manipulating > partitions on an sdcard. It had something to do with how one of the Jessie > images were laid out. > > So you know the old way of growing a partition manually with fdisk right ? > fdisk the block device, delete the rootfs partition, and then make a new > partition in it's place to use up all the disk space right ? > > Well for some reason on the Jesie images when you do this, the starting > sector starts at the front of the block device, and then fidks gets some > whack geometry. . .
Yeah, it does rely on knowing the initial geometry.. On the offical images i store it in /boot/SOC.sh https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/grow_partition.sh#L91-L93 if that fails, i'm basicly guessing: https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/grow_partition.sh#L50 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/CAOCHtYgiqo2yHL86tn1J16v2nSsr1ogaBCZZk5Vyw2%2BEDXLzPw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
