How to create a system partition size >512MB on a clean install

1st Official Post

    Hi all, can anyone help explain how i do this? i have very limited linux experience so i'm not sure how to go about it as the libreelec installer doesn't seem to let me set sizes for the partitions. Trying to setup an optiplex 760 as a home media pc.


    Any help would be most appreciated

    • Official Post

    Two methods:

    a) Compile your own image with this value changed: https://github.com/libreelec/libreelec.tv/blob/master/distributions/libreelec/options#l203

    b) Install using the default image which creates a 512MB partition and then reboot from an Ubuntu (or similar) LiveUSB and use gparted to shrink /storage and then increase the size of the boot partition.

    LE images are currently 235MB and much larger full debug development builds fit in a 512MB partition. Generic sizes will drop considerably in LE10 once we remove 2x nvidia driver blobs from the image.

    Thank you so much,

    I was going about it the wrong way.. was trying to use a bootable gparted Live and it never crossed my mind to boot ubuntu and use gparted... Its running the processes now.


    Very Much appreciated!