| 09:28 | Exaga> | jnettlet: are you around? |
| 09:29 | jnettlet> | Exaga: yep |
| 09:29 | Exaga> | good morning |
| 09:29 | jnettlet> | how have you been? |
| 09:29 | Exaga> | i've just installed the Deabian OS image from https://images.solid-build.xyz/A38X/ |
| 09:29 | Exaga> | mate... life is really bad |
| 09:30 | jnettlet> | almost done with my second cup of coffee, so the morning is looking better |
| 09:30 | Exaga> | i was made redundant on 10 May |
| 09:30 | Exaga> | and the company aren't being very supportive or helpful |
| 09:30 | jnettlet> | sorry to hear that. |
| 09:30 | Exaga> | but that's my story |
| 09:30 | Exaga> | it's fine jnettlet... life has its ups and downs |
| 09:30 | jnettlet> | what are you working with? |
| 09:31 | Exaga> | hopefully i will find another job but first... time to play with SolidRun devices <3 |
| 09:31 | jnettlet> | you looking for full time, or consulting? |
| 09:31 | Exaga> | hahaha |
| 09:31 | jnettlet> | fair enough |
| 09:31 | Exaga> | I am findamentally a PC mechanic |
| 09:31 | Exaga> | repairs, maintenance, etc |
| 09:32 | Exaga> | specialised in hardware and virus/malware removal |
| 09:32 | Exaga> | that was my job |
| 09:32 | Exaga> | it's what i've done for 12 years |
| 09:32 | Exaga> | my hobby is ARM devices |
| 09:33 | Exaga> | and Slackware ARM |
| 09:33 | Exaga> | i created and still maintain SARPi (Slackware ARM on a Raspberry Pi) installers on sarpi.fatdog.nl |
| 09:33 | jnettlet> | you looking for a career change? |
| 09:33 | Exaga> | I have also done an installer for the Hummingboard - humbo.fatdog.nl |
| 09:34 | Exaga> | jnettlet: my hobby is way more enjoyable than my previous job :D |
| 09:34 | Exaga> | i might have to look at changing vocations |
| 09:34 | Exaga> | not easy in England to get a job right now |
| 09:35 | Exaga> | anyway how are you? |
| 09:35 | jnettlet> | of course. |
| 09:35 | jnettlet> | busy. So many boards |
| 09:35 | Exaga> | haha ye |
| 09:36 | Exaga> | never a peaceful moment I guess |
| 09:36 | jnettlet> | and getting ready to launch our new Workstation board |
| 09:36 | Exaga> | well i have a really silly and noobish question for you |
| 09:36 | Exaga> | hopefully not taking up any of your time |
| 09:36 | jnettlet> | https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/clearfog-itx/ |
| 09:36 | Exaga> | i have a clearfog pro |
| 09:36 | Exaga> | and i have just installed Debian |
| 09:37 | jnettlet> | I always have time for the community. Keeps me sane |
| 09:37 | Exaga> | and i am needing to fill up all the free space on the microSD card |
| 09:37 | Exaga> | on raspbian this is so simple |
| 09:37 | Exaga> | but i am having problems doing it with debian on the clearfog |
| 09:38 | jnettlet> | which image are you using? |
| 09:38 | Exaga> | and, of course, you are the man to ask :> |
| 09:39 | Exaga> | https://images.solid-build.xyz/A38X/sr-a38x-debian-stretch-20180406.img.xz |
| 09:39 | Exaga> | that one |
| 09:40 | Exaga> | i have an 8GB sd card but only 1GB partition |
| 09:40 | Exaga> | Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
| 09:40 | Exaga> | /dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 2097151 2088960 1020M 83 Linux |
| 09:41 | jnettlet> | okay, so I can't remember if that image resizes to the entire sdhc on first boot. |
| 09:41 | Exaga> | i assume it doesn't |
| 09:41 | Exaga> | normally i would just delete/re-create the partition and run resize2fs |
| 09:41 | Exaga> | on raspbian |
| 09:41 | Exaga> | but i must admit my Debian methods are a little out of date |
| 09:42 | Exaga> | 99.5% od my hobby work is Slackware ARM based |
| 09:42 | jnettlet> | so what you want to do is use fdisk to delete that partition and then recreate it to use the full size of the disk. |
| 09:42 | Exaga> | yes i did that |
| 09:43 | jnettlet> | okay, then run resize2fs to expand the filesystem to use the full partition |
| 09:43 | jnettlet> | just resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
| 09:43 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
| 09:43 | Exaga> | resize2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) |
| 09:43 | Exaga> | The filesystem is already 261120 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do! |
| 09:44 | jnettlet> | oh. run partprobe |
| 09:44 | Exaga> | ok and then? |
| 09:44 | jnettlet> | it is possible that the kernel is not autodetecting the repartitioning because it is the main device |
| 09:45 | jnettlet> | then run the resize2fs command |
| 09:45 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo partprobe |
| 09:45 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
| 09:45 | Exaga> | resize2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) |
| 09:45 | Exaga> | The filesystem is already 261120 (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do! |
| 09:45 | Exaga> | do you see my dilemma? :> |
| 09:46 | jnettlet> | can you send me the output of fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | sure |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | Disk /dev/mmcblk0p1: 1020 MiB, 1069547520 bytes, 2088960 sectors |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 09:46 | Exaga> | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 09:47 | jnettlet> | oh it is seeing the card as the wrong size. That is a new one |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | hold on... |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Disklabel type: dos |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Disk identifier: 0x12f90f9d |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | /dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 2097151 2088960 1020M 83 Linux |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | ** Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7.4 GiB |
| 09:47 | Exaga> | it sees the 8GB card |
| 09:48 | jnettlet> | okay. so it isn't seeing the partition change |
| 09:48 | Exaga> | but for some reason i cannot resize the only partition |
| 09:48 | jnettlet> | after you make the changes with fdisk and save them check dmesg for errors |
| 09:48 | Exaga> | ok 1 min |
| 09:50 | Exaga> | haha there are no errors |
| 09:50 | Exaga> | not a single error |
| 09:51 | Exaga> | hold on let me try a reboot |
| 09:52 | Exaga> | nope... not booting |
| 09:53 | Exaga> | rewriting the image |
| 09:53 | Exaga> | i will attempt it using root user instead of sudo |
| 09:53 | jnettlet> | Exaga: if you have another linux machine you may want to try this from that machine. |
| 09:53 | Exaga> | jnettlet: i have several, over a dozen :> |
| 09:54 | jnettlet> | I have to step out for about 40 minutes. I will check back in a bit. let me know how it goes. |
| 09:54 | Exaga> | will do and thanks jnettlet :> |
| 11:47 | Exaga> | jnettlet: solution - FINALLY! |
| 11:48 | Exaga> | on Ubuntu; "apt install cloud-guest-utils" |
| 11:49 | Exaga> | then ... |
| 11:49 | Exaga> | root@ubuntu:~# growpart /dev/sdc 1 |
| 11:49 | Exaga> | CHANGED: partition=1 start=8192 old: size=2088960 end=2097152 new: size=15515615 end=15523807 |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Disk /dev/sdc: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Disk model: STORAGE DEVICE |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Disklabel type: dos |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Disk identifier: 0x12f90f9d |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
| 11:50 | Exaga> | /dev/sdc1 8192 15523806 15515615 7.4G 83 Linux |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disk /dev/sdc: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disk model: STORAGE DEVICE |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disklabel type: dos |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disk identifier: 0x12f90f9d |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | /dev/sdc1 8192 15523806 15515615 7.4G 83 Linux |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | err.... sorry |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | debian@clearfog:~$ sudo fdisk -l |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disklabel type: dos |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Disk identifier: 0x12f90f9d |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
| 11:53 | Exaga> | /dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 15523806 15515615 7.4G 83 Linux |
| 11:54 | Exaga> | there you go. all up and running using the new partition parameters |
| 11:54 | Exaga> | it's a bit of a ball-ache resizing the partitions on the clearfog debian image |
| 11:55 | Exaga> | but now it's done... no more problems :D |
| 12:06 | jnettlet> | Exaga: glad it is working. I will have our buildmaster look at why the auto-resizing isn't working |
| 12:07 | Exaga> | great. one thing i noticed.... before resizing the partitions all the network port LEDs are lit up and afterwards they are not |
| 12:07 | Exaga> | i can still log in remotely and work on it just fine |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | ok cool... |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | root@clearfog:~# resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | resize2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017) |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk0p1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | old_desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1 |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | The filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p1 is now 1939451 (4k) blocks long. |
| 12:12 | Exaga> | NOW it's working :> |
| 12:21 | Exaga> | jnettlet: you can also use this growpart command on-the-fly without umount - i just tried it and it's working as expected |
| 12:21 | jnettlet> | good to know. I will pass it along |
| 12:22 | Exaga> | thank you, as always, for your time and assistance |
| 12:28 | jnettlet> | anytime |