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MaaxBoard Debian Image - Tips, Add-Ins, and Fixes

joshb86

Hello All,

 

Now that we have the official Debian image for the MaaxBoard we have been tearing away at building the system for our needs. In the process we are coming across some changes and modifications that I'll log in this thread to hopefully save others some time. We are also feeding these details directly to our Avnet engineering team to hopefully help refine future image releases.

 

I'll try to keep this as organized as possible so I'll update this initial post with quick links to future posts to help save everyone some time on reading through posts that aren't related to what they are searching for:

 

 

Image V1.1.1.r10

 

Identified Issues

 

Add-Ins

 

Tips

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  • Expand Primary Partition

     

    If you're flashing the image to say a 16gb SD card, you'll notice that there isn't a first boot script yet like you see with the Rpi that will auto expand the primary partition so you can utilize all of the remaining free space of your SD. This guide will help you reclaim the free space to actually make the system usable for growth.

     

    Requirements

    • Secondary linux system (VirtualBox VM is always a good quick option)
    • SD card slot, or SD to USB adapter for host machine

     

    Once the requirements are in place, this guide will walk you through expanding the partition: https://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Partitions#Manually_resizing_the_SD_card_on_Linux

     

    NOTE: If you currently have critical data on the card, back it up first.

  • in reply to joshb86

    Great blog on Hackster.io to do this.

    Here is a shorten version of the blog.

    start Terminal

    df -h                               this will show the SD card at only 6.4g

    fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

    p                                   to show partitions, take note of the start number for the second partition ####### /dev/mmcblk0p2 it should be something like 544768

    d

    2

    n

    p

    2

    ########

    Press Enter for default last sector

    N

    w

    resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

    df -h

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  • in reply to joshb86

    Great blog on Hackster.io to do this.

    Here is a shorten version of the blog.

    start Terminal

    df -h                               this will show the SD card at only 6.4g

    fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

    p                                   to show partitions, take note of the start number for the second partition ####### /dev/mmcblk0p2 it should be something like 544768

    d

    2

    n

    p

    2

    ########

    Press Enter for default last sector

    N

    w

    resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

    df -h

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