Not enaough space following instructions at https://beagleboard.org/upgrade

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I just got a new BeagleBone Black wireless.

I'm not (yet) using an external SSD card.

After connecting the WiFi interface, I carefully followed the instructions at https://beagleboard.org/upgrade

In section "Update distribution components", when executing

sudo apt upgrade

I get

[...]

The following packages will be upgraded:

[... 24 lines of package names ...]
179 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 376 MB of archives.
After this operation, 158 MB of additional disk space will be used.
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Indeed, there's little space remaining in the internal eMMC:

debian@beaglebone:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            216M     0  216M   0% /dev
tmpfs            49M  5.4M   44M  12% /run
/dev/mmcblk1p1  3.4G  3.0G  268M  92% /
tmpfs           243M     0  243M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           243M     0  243M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs            49M     0   49M   0% /run/user/1000

So, following the advice in https://beagleboard.org/upgrade: "This documentation is very new and your feedback is requested", here's my feedback.

Is there any way to make some additional room in the eMMC filesystem?

Thank you.

[Ivan Riol]

I think the emmc is only 4GB..... So you either use bigger SD card or you can flash emmc with a 2GB image

[set_]

Hello,

in /opt/scripts/tools/, make sure you have wifi enabled via connmanctl or whatever way you get wifi working, use the command "git pull" and then the script to run is grow_partition.sh.

sudo ./grow_partition.sh should do it. But like the other fellow stated, use the SD Card w/ more space or use a smaller image.

Seth