Posts by mrfatboy

So here are my findings:

If I clone USB drive to ExtDrive the only way to boot ExtDrive is from USB2 port on RPi4, which is no-go for me due to speed limits (I tested all 4 ports on RPi4).

ExtDrive is only booting from USB3 port when I "dd" LE img file to ExtDrive or use netinstall followed with initial boot but that ends with corrupted FS in both cases.

So I think there is a bug for resizing partitions during initial boot after placing LE img to bigger drives.

Or, LE has limit for the size for external drives that can run LE from (worth documenting I guess).

I can share drive info later on.

Thanks for quick reply Da Flex. However, formatting external 2TB drive to ExFAT didn't help.

What I'm doing:

1. Removed all previous partitions from 2TB external drive

2. Formatted to NTFS (clean drive)

3. Drive plugged into RPi4 (no SD card or other USB drive attched) USB3 port.

4. After power-on Shift key is used for netboot

5. boot.img is downloaded and rpi-imager is used to write LE to attached external drive

6. After reboot I see PARTITION RESIZING IN PROGRESS screen

Resizing partition... done

Checking file system... done

Resizing file system... done (this step takes very long time)

Shutting down in... <countdown>

8. After reboot I see

Filesystem corruption has been detected!

To prevent an automatic repair attempt continuing,

press any key or power off your system within the next 120 seconds

When I power off RPi4 and check drive in "parted" I see error:

Corrupt group descriptor: bad block for for block bitmap

My 64GB USB key used for running LE is working just fine on RPi4, I wanted to switch to 2TB external drive so I can run LE from it and hold more data along.

PS: I'm not native EN speaker so maybe I've missed something in the thread you've shared.

Hi,

I'd like to use 2TB external drive for running LE on RPi4 8GB RAM, but after post-initial boot I'm getting error that filesystem is corrupted,

I have performed netinstall of LE 10.0.3 with rpi-imager and I've noticed that "Resizing file system... " is taking quite long via USB3 port.
Once it is done and RPi reboots I see error "file system corruption has been detected, press any key or shutdown RPi within 2 minutes to avoid fs check"

Partition table of HDD is "msdos".

Any idea what went wrong pls?

Thx