Getting around the partition limitation

    I have a PC with an Intel Processor N100 (Alder Lake-N) that I'd like to use as my Kodi box. The PC has a 1TB SSD, which I'd like to use both for the system and for media. Ideally, the media would reside in a separate partition, but I read that's not recommended with Libreelec. However, I'm a bit puzzled how people get around this limitation: Are you all using separate disks for the system and media? Or do you copy your media into the same partition as the system? But in the latter case, how do you handle system upgrades -- do you just delete your media (unacceptable in my case) or does Libreelec always have an upgrade path that preserves the non-system data?

    Note that because Alder Lake-N is so new, it does require a very recent kernel to get proper video and power management support. Therefore, I'd probably have to use Libreelec's nightly builds. Once the next stable release of Libreelec is out, is there an upgrade path from a nightly build to the stable release that preserves my media?

    • Best Answer

    LE is packaged so the entire OS resides in two files; the KERNEL and SYSTEM files in the first partition of whatever device you boot from. The storage (second) partition is only used for persistent data, and Kodi DB files and add-ons are the only content that might be touched during upgrades, so long-term placement of media elsewhere on /storage has no impact from upgrades. There is no need to delete media to make an update unless perhaps you reached 99%+ full on the disk (some space is required for update file unpacking).

    Update from LE12 nightlies to LE12 future releases (nightly or otherwise) is simple and supported, and currently nightlies are quite stable; at least on the RPi hardware that I use.