Hi all,
Please can someone help, i have a 16gb sd card and when i install octopi-stretch-lite-0.15.1 with Etcher it only uses 24mb of the card,how do i get it to use the full card??
please can someone help.
Hi @John_Davis!
You may login via SSH and use sudo raspi-config
Advanced Options -> Expand Filesystem
More info you can find here. Advanced Options -> Expand Filesystem
But how you come to just 24 MB used of the SD card?
OctoPi.zip (0.15.1) alone is 567 MB.
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If it was installed properly per the instructions, then there should be two partitions on that microSD. If you insert it into either a Windows/OSX computer though, you'll only see the first tiny boot partition but not the other ext4-formatted one.
Expand Filesystem as suggested will expand that second partition but you still won't be able to see it unless you're running Raspbian or you've mounted that into a Linux box of some kind.
Remote into the Raspberry Pi and run df -h to see what's what.
pi@octopi:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.1G 3.0G 3.8G 44% /
devtmpfs 434M 0 434M 0% /dev
tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 438M 6.2M 432M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 42M 22M 20M 54% /boot
tmpfs 88M 8.0K 88M 1% /run/user/1000
In my case, I'm staring at 7.1GB on an 8GB microSD. Notice how the /boot paritition then is that mysterious 42MB partition.
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@Ewald_Ikemann It's no longer necessary to manually expand the filesystem, octopi has a script that does it for you on the first boot.
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