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Expanding Linux Partitions: Part 2 of 2

As shown in Part 1 of this article, extracting Linux from a pre-made .img file can result in unused space at the end of the uSD card. Depending on the size of the uSD card, this could leave a significant

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BeagleBone Black GA Angstrom Image

Before booting the BeagleBone Black for the first time, you may want to snap an image of the unbooted the Angstrom load from NVRAM in its virgin state for future reference.  To do this, we need a microSD card to

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Expanding Linux Partitions: Part 1 of 2

When installing Linux by unpacking .tar files into empty boot and root file system partitions, you get to decide how the partitions will lay out. When extracting Linux from a raw image file, the partition table is already defined and

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