On May 13, 2017 7:20 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. 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. The starting address is stored in the /boot/SOC.sh file... Regards, -- 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/CAOCHtYggTJ%3Dxbo%2Bg7cwpZVg-F7fq4cG83bC9hRUogm90mnNCnw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
