Well Chewitt you might be on to something. I checked the the amount of free space left on the second partition of the libreELEC usb stick. After finally getting those old backups deleted, there seems to be a discrepancy between apps on how much free space is actually left. PCMANFM reports that there is plenty of room, which is accurate when you do the math. While GPARTED reports the old amount of space, prior to deleting old backups. I might try FSKing the partition, except that it seems to be working and recognized by different OSes, differently.
Its my understanding that USB sticks are finicky when it comes to recognizing a second partition. For whatever reasons, any partition after the first is rarely recognized. So getting libreELEC to work as it does with multiple partitions on a usb drive is pretty AMAZING and a tribute to the knowledge and hardwork of the libreELEC team!
Posts by davidrebar
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Even after deleting old backups with this method, I still get the error message that I do not have enough free disk space to backup libreELEC and Kodi.
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I have the same problem with error message "not enough free space" on trying to backup, except running from thumb drive on AMD64PC hardware.
I can mount the drive and see the many .tar backups, and that there is not enough space. On trying to delete with admin privs, I do not have sufficient privs to do so. There is no option to delete old backups in libreELEC where the backup option is and backup does not delete its own previous backups.
I'm using LUBUNTU 16.04 to access the usb drive. I'm sure that I need to logon to the thumbdrive with libreELEC credentials to delete the files, but I don't know how using PCMANFM. I'll see what I can do through SSH, although my SSH is rusty at best. Is it possible to change file permissions without the native login? Or to delete the older backups through a file manager with proper privs?
Any guidance is appreciated, thank you in advance. You all have done a TREMENDOUS great job! Cheers!
I'm using a USB2 thumbdrive for proof of concept and it runs surprisingly faster than I imagined once it is loaded into RAM. Startup and shutdown are the slow points, which are acceptable for me.