Force auto partition with new Debian 11 on BeagleBone Black

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When I flash am335x-debian-11.5-minimal-armhf-2022-11-01-2gb.img.xz (Debian 11 newest monthly) from Debian 11.x (Bullseye) - Monthly Snapshots onto a microSD card using Balena Etcher, the space shown is an underestimate of the actual space:

> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/mmcblk0p1  1.7G  876M  749M  54% /
...

(there’s actually 4 GB on the BeagleBone Black.)

[2020-04-06] How to add HDMI back into BBB image after init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh - #4 by RobertCNelson from @RobertCNelson:

Reboot… The auto partition resize takes a reboot to finish…

Sometimes when I reboot the auto partition takes place, but recently, it’s not taking place. Is there some command(s) to force a partition to occur?

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On the ‘very’ first bootup, there is a long line of first run scripts… From ssh generation, to ti-sgx module installation…

1st script on first bootup:

2nd script after reboot:

Regards,

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Thank you for the quick response, looks like sudo /usr/bin/bb-resizefs did the trick!

Log of commands run:

> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            215M     0  215M   0% /dev
tmpfs            49M  1.4M   48M   3% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p1  1.7G  844M  782M  52% /
tmpfs           242M     0  242M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1001

> sudo /usr/bin/bb-growpart
/usr/bin/growpart /dev/mmcblk0 1
NOCHANGE: partition 1 is size 124727263. it cannot be grown

> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            215M     0  215M   0% /dev
tmpfs            49M  1.4M   48M   3% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p1  1.7G  844M  782M  52% /
tmpfs           242M     0  242M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1001

> sudo /usr/bin/bb-resizefs
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1
resize2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk0p1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 8
The filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p1 is now 15590907 (4k) blocks long.

> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            215M     0  215M   0% /dev
tmpfs            49M  1.4M   48M   3% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p1   59G  844M   56G   2% /
tmpfs           242M     0  242M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1001
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sudo /usr/bin/bb-growpart
sudo reboot
sudo /usr/bin/bb-resizefs

Regards,

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