LE not using the complete SD Card?

TBone · January 8, 2017 at 7:31 AM

Hi!

I´m rather new to linux and RasPi, so please be patient with me. I started with a RasPi 3 and a 8GB microSD, using the LE SD Card Tool (wich is a KILLER feature!) putting the SD Card in the Pi and booting. Great!

So I started heading to Amazon Prime and Netflix on my LibreELEC .... stumbling over a unsolvable (for me!) issue: I cannot upload the Update File because there seems to be no space on the card in the .upload directory. Did I miss something? my card has 8GB an df -h shows:

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ibreELEC:/ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                363.4M         0    363.4M   0% /dev
/dev/mmcblk0p1          511.7M    274.0M    237.8M  54% /flash
/dev/mmcblk0p2           27.0M     26.3M      1.0K 100% /storage
/dev/loop0              118.1M    118.1M         0 100% /
tmpfs                   368.5M         0    368.5M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   368.5M      5.8M    362.7M   2% /run
tmpfs                   368.5M         0    368.5M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                   368.5M         0    368.5M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                   368.5M    380.0K    368.1M   0% /var
LibreELEC:/ #

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so how can I expand the filesystem to the complete card? I know the Raspbian-Config tool, but not any commands doing this on LE ...

**lrusak** · January 8, 2017 at 8:41 AM Official Post

The filesystem should be expanded to fill the entire SD card at first boot. Then it will automatically reboot with the new partition size.

If in doubt just reinstall and let it run through the entire boot process.

make sure the read-only switch isn't on
make sure you have an adequate power supply

TBone · January 8, 2017 at 12:09 PM

ok ... that did the trick. the "new" sd card completed the first boot process as you said, the "old" had a "file system error fixing" on first boot, never did expand and sth. like that ... can be closed! thank you very much!