Missing rootfs after flashing with Debian Jessie image

[James Simpson]

Relatively new user here. I've been working with the Debian Wheezy that came installed on the BBB, but would like to update to use Debian Jessie. Following the instructions for flashing the Jessie image (BBB-blank-debian-8.5-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-08-14-4gb.img), I have Debian Jessie 8.5 on my eMMC. The problem I've run into is that I'm now missing a rootfs and have no storage room to work with. The output of df -h is shown below:

root@beaglebone:~# df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev

tmpfs            99M  2.8M   96M   3% /run

/dev/mmcblk1p1  3.5G  3.0G  354M  90% /

tmpfs           247M     0  247M   0% /dev/shm

tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock

tmpfs           247M     0  247M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

If I use an older flasher image for Debian Wheezy, it works perfectly and I have the file system I expect. Any clue on what I might be doing wrong or what I can do to fix things would be greatly appreciated. I assume it's possible to upgrade to Jessie by editing the sources list and using apt-get, but that shouldn't be necessary.

[Robert Nelson]

On Aug 17, 2016 10:54 AM, "James Simpson" <simpso...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Relatively new user here. I've been working with the Debian Wheezy that came installed on the BBB, but would like to update to use Debian Jessie. Following the instructions for flashing the Jessie image (BBB-blank-debian-8.5-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-08-14-4gb.img), I have Debian Jessie 8.5 on my eMMC. The problem I've run into is that I'm now missing a rootfs and have no storage room to work with. The output of df -h is shown below:
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> root@beaglebone:~# df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
> tmpfs            99M  2.8M   96M   3% /run
> /dev/mmcblk1p1  3.5G  3.0G  354M  90% /

Rootfs is ^ right there..

And yes the lxqt-4gb is a little big at 3gb.

Regards,

[James Simpson]

Thanks for the reply. I'd expected storage to be partitioned more along the lines of the Wheezy image:

Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs                                                  3.4G  1.8G  1.5G  55% /

udev                                                     10M     0   10M   0% /dev

tmpfs                                                   100M  696K   99M   1% /run

/dev/disk/by-uuid/834ea8a4-e29f-410f-94b1-a7b67b757f6b  3.4G  1.8G  1.5G  55% /

tmpfs                                                   249M     0  249M   0% /dev/shm

tmpfs                                                   249M     0  249M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

tmpfs                                                   100M     0  100M   0% /run/user

tmpfs                                                   5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

/dev/mmcblk0p1                                           96M   64M   33M  67% /media/BEAGLEBONE

I'll have to decide if the reduced free space will work for my application.

[Graham]

James:

If you are running headless, and not using desktop display / video output, you can get rid of over half of the occupied space.

Consider using the "console" version, which is about 1.2 GB, and just adding in what you might need beyond the basic OS.

--- Graham

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