Qole, thank you for your post. This issue still remains.

I noticed that:
dd if=/dev/zero of=debian.img.ext2 count=6291456
will not allow a 3 GB partition. 2 GB is the largest it can be. I am assuming this is still an EXT2 issue. I double checked my 4 GB mini-SD to ensure this was not a space issue and your math -- both were correct. Would formatting the mini-SD to EXT3 fix this issue?

I was trying to fix this, but I cannot get gparted to pull using ssh -Y or ssh -X flags. I'll have to try gparted on the n810.

Thanks for your instructions and any thoughts to fix this issue for all would be appreciated.