Ah thank you I'll use that next time :) On Feb 19, 2017 10:51 PM, "Robert Nelson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 9:46 PM, James Hice <[email protected]> wrote: > > I first found the instructions at > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Expanding_File_System_ > Partition_On_A_microSD > > which are a bit outdated. there was only 1 partition on the Debian Jesse > > image > > I still came across this issue though as my partition started on a > different > > sector so I thought it would be a good to add to this thread when I came > > across it while searching for instructions. > > > > in cases where the only partition has a different start sector, the new > > partition should also start on the same sector > > > > for my case the partition started on 8192 > > as found from fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > > /dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 124735487 124727296 59.5G 83 Linux > > > > when creating the new partition, the number under start should be used. > > (8192 in my case) instead of using the default of 2048 > > after I did this I was able to resize the file system without issue > > There's a built-in script: > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian# > Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD > > We moved the start of the partition from 1MB -> 4MB as the default > u-boot has gotten big enough to break thru the 1MB hole boundary.. > > 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/CA%2BmNLdTjrv_kV05VukggyNSSu50xdQOfaRXNw0RzMC%2B9y61dMQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
