Write that information down . . . On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 9:17 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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/ms >> gid/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/CALHSORp4ViWCtNRdoyJ2sdAdi%3DBDKdf7y-R%3DdOr0uoD%3DKEksGA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
