Questions tagged [partition]
Partitions are individual divisions of hard disk drives. Drives may be split up in to multiple partitions, so that they act as if many drives were connected.
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Partition corrupt
Message: I have a Raspberry Pi–based game, Whacky & Funky Gators, and its main game partition has become corrupted. If you have the game image file or any possible solution, could you please help ...
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Change boot partition on Raspberry Pi
I am playing with the partitions on my Raspberry Pi. I booted from a stick and created a second partition next to rootfs on the SD card. I copied the whole filesystem using cat /dev/mmcblk0p2 > /...
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Raspberry Pi 5 running Gentoo Linux is not able to mount partitions at first
I have a Pi 5 with a 64-bit, systemd-based Gentoo Linux on it, and every time it starts it gets held up with four jobs: making a file system check for /dev/mmcblk0p3, my root partition, trying to ...
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I cannot boot from SD card, "BusyBox v*** (Debian *** ) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs)"
Wanting to reinstall the Raspberry Pi OS on my RaspberryPi5 (64-bit quad-core Cortex-A76 8GB LPDDR4X SDRAM), I did the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress Then I created ...
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Update software of a Pico remotely
I'm using a raspberry Pi Pico and I'm struggling to find if it's possible to update my script remotely (I cannot use neither SWD or USB). Currently my new firmware (can be .uf2, .bin or .hex file) is ...
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What, besides the MBR, is on the start of a Raspberry Pi OS drive?
Short version: If the MBR is only 256 bytes and the partition table is 4 bytes, what fills all the space between the beginning of the device and the start of the first sector on it? More information: ...
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How can I flash Raspberry Pi OS onto a single partition of an SSD?
Context I have a 500GB external SSD whith a 32 GB partition containing an older 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS, a boot partition of a few GB and a 468-ish GB partition for data (docker volumes, photos, ...
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Autoexpand partition after first boot
I am using Raspberry OS for a batch of zeros, I wanted to prepare the OS one time and then flash the prepared image for the others. After flashing the OS I installed some useful things for later, I ...
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Can I have more than 32GB on the boot sd card?
My understanding is that the card reader can handle SDXC cards (ie >32GB) but that the bootloader has a limit of 32GB. Can I get around this by having multiple partitions? The OS would only need to ...
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How to expand the volume of Fedora 35 Server?
Perspectives Actually I was looking for Pi OS AArch64 but it was a beta version. It's suppose to me Fedora 35 Server AArch64 would be the best alternative of Pi OS AArch64. Actually Fedora 35 Server ...
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raspi-config for CentOS (or) How do I manually adjust the size of my root partition?
I need to know how to install raspi-config on a CentOS distro. Can this be done? If not, how can I manually adjust the root partition? On every image I've downloaded for the Pi, every CentOS distro, ...
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Recover an ext4 due to the super block flag
My ubuntu 21 hanged and after rebooting, it was not able to boot up. The current message is this one. Tried to use fsck with -y and -f and none of them fixes the partition. It happened with the ...
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Use same SSD as Pi boot image and Windows/Pi file store
I’ve scoured the web and this forum for an answer to my question and came up empty. So apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I have a 1GB m.2 SATA SSD that I would like to BOTH use as my Pi boot ...
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Memory card issues
So I have had it the piwh for a while running pihole never had any problems until recently got a memory issue. I have used the clean and autoremove and gained 28% but of a 32gb SD card it's showing 6....
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Is it possible to select the root partition at boot time using GPIO pins
My Raspberry PI has 2 identical (kind of) root partitions. I would like to be able to select the other root partition at boot time using a GPIO pin in case I brick it.
