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Expand your file systems

So, you downloaded a preconfigured Lakka image... ...and it wasn't from Lakka

Chance are, when the image you downloaded was made, it was 'frozen' from a small size SD Card Let's say 1GB for this use case

Here's what happened next:

  • Burnt the image onto a 32GB card
  • Set everything up
  • Started uploading ROMs
  • The upload failed saying you where out of space!!!

"But it's a 32GB card you say!"

We will now show you how to resize your SD Card remotely

SSH into your Lakka device

See README.md on how to do this

$ ssh root@[ip_address]

Check your drive space

Even loading the pre burnt image onto a 32GB will show you that you only have 1GB (use case) space on your SD Card

$ df -h

Ensure you are in the root director

$ cd /

Lock and Stop XBMC

$ touch /var/lock/xbmc.disabled
$ killall -9 xbmc.bin

Unmount the storage partition (where you put all the ROMs)

$ umount /storage

For the rest we will be using a program call parted, it's part of Lakka

mmcblk0 is the default partition in Lakka... ...ALWAYS

$ parted /dev/mmcblk0

Once you start parted, you will see your cursor preceeded by (parted) instead of $ Below, in the next steps you will see (parted), this is NOT something you need to type

Display Sectors on the "parted" drive

(parted) unit s

Display partitions in parter

(parted) p

Remove the storage partition

(parted) rm 2

Recreate the storage partition

The numbers below are sectors where to start creating and ending the next partition, the -1 just means all the way to the end

(parted) mkpart primary 258048 -1

Quit parted

We are now DONE in parted, you will be returned to the $ cursor

(parted) quit parted

Back in normal terminal

Ensure the new partition is an ext2 file system and check for errors

mmcblk0p2 is the second partition of mmcblk0, which is the partition we worked with in parted

$ e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p2

Resize the ext2 partition

$ resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

Mount the partition again

Remeber how we unmounted using parted...

$ mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /storage

Check your drive space

This time around you will notice that the sector labeled /storage has been inflated to the remaining space of your SD card. In this example (the 32GB card) you should have around 30.5GB space

$ df -h

Remove the lock

The one we create above

$rm /var/lock/xbmc.disabled