On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 17:49:39 -0700, William Hermans > <[email protected]> declaimed the following: > > >By the way, similar to what Graham mentioned. Get a larger sdcard. > >Personally I use 16G sdcards( think we have some 32's as well ), and > resize > >the main partition to file the whole card. There are actually a few ways > to > >do this, for me the quickest was is to use fdisk. Basically it involves > >deleting the main partition, then recreating the same partition, but with > >no limitation on the end. Which will use the entirety of the sdcard. > >Something to note about this procedure. If you do not know what you're > >doing, it can be "dangerous". No, the card wont destroy your neighborhood > >or anything of that nature, but you can render the disk unreadable. e.g. > >lose your existing data. > > > > On that point, I've found the most noticeable trap is that fdisk > defaults to creating the partition at 2048, but recent BBB images start at > (I recall) 8192. > So you use file, and write all that information odwn. > > If one doesn't reset the starting point, one either ends up wiping > part > of the boot configuration data, OR is unable to find the base of the file > system. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > [email protected] HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.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/raudhc9abimhdtmuj14l0ji3m0rn43eg4e%404ax.com. > 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/CALHSORomE98Z0bnh%2BBnR%2BznVU_-Ai3%3DO%3DZqnikVW-pdjmwDb%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
