Solved this, had to install the image to the eMMC, create a temp partition, copy all the installed data and then reformat the filesystem before copying the temporary partition back over.
On Monday, 5 May 2014 12:08:50 UTC+10, Tim Kalinowski wrote: > > Sorry link was meant to be > http://s3.armhf.com/debian/wheezy/bone/debian-wheezy-7.2-armhf-3.8.13-bone30.img.xzas > I used debian wheezy not ubuntu saucy although steps are all the same > otherwise. > > On Monday, 5 May 2014 10:51:11 UTC+10, Tim Kalinowski wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a beaglebone black that i've installed debian wheezy from Armhf >> onto the eMMC >> >> While this was working great up until recently when I ran out of inodes >> on the patition even though I had 40% of space free on the device. >> Now I understand I cant increase inodes on a filesystem that has unix >> installed and I need to recreate the patition which I am happy to do after >> having backed up my work. >> Only issue is how do I go about doing this? >> >> This is what I have tried so far >> >> Create a microSD with bootable debian, >> >> boot into debian on the USB then format the emmc >> mkfs.ext4 -i 4096 /dev/mmcblk1 >> >> my understanding is that using the -i argument I can specify for every >> 4096 bytes a inode should be created >> *I have tried this twice now, once with 4096 a second time with 2048* >> >> get the debian image >> wget http:// >> s3.armhf.com/debian/saucy/bone/ubuntu-saucy-13.10-armhf-3.8.13-bone30.img.xz >> >> extract it to the new partition >> xz -cd ubuntu-saucy-13.10-armhf-3.8.13-bone30.img.xz > /dev/mmcblk1 >> >> Which to me seems like the correct steps although each time I do this >> when I type df -i the result is always the same amount of inodes (11,7000~) >> or something like that >> Would really appreciate some guidance on how I can achieve increasing the >> inodes above the default. >> >> Cheers >> Tim >> > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
