The beaglebone black has 2 GB of built-in flash storage which also included pre-installed operating system. If you try installing other applications you will soon run out of space. To overcome this issue, we can use a micro-SD card as an external storage
Follow these steps to enable and use micro SD card as external storage
a. Connect beaglebone to 5V power adaptor. Also connect the device using USB to access it through VNC.
b. Using USB Adaptor, insert micro-SD card into USB port.
c. Open VNC, go to Applications --> System tools --> Disk Utility
d. Unmount the microSD card volume.
e. Format the drive using "Master Boot Record" as scheme and "ext4" as partition type. You can choose any name and mount point say '/media/drive'.
f. Now go to the drive and create a file uEnv.txt
g. Put following as content of the file:
mmcdev=1
bootpart=1:2
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro
optargs=quiet
h. Disconnect the micro-SD card from the USB adapter and insert the card into micro-SD card slot.
g. Reboot the device and SD card will be automatically mounted. It can be used as external storage.
Follow these steps to enable and use micro SD card as external storage
a. Connect beaglebone to 5V power adaptor. Also connect the device using USB to access it through VNC.
b. Using USB Adaptor, insert micro-SD card into USB port.
c. Open VNC, go to Applications --> System tools --> Disk Utility
d. Unmount the microSD card volume.
e. Format the drive using "Master Boot Record" as scheme and "ext4" as partition type. You can choose any name and mount point say '/media/drive'.
f. Now go to the drive and create a file uEnv.txt
g. Put following as content of the file:
mmcdev=1
bootpart=1:2
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro
optargs=quiet
h. Disconnect the micro-SD card from the USB adapter and insert the card into micro-SD card slot.
g. Reboot the device and SD card will be automatically mounted. It can be used as external storage.
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