Hello,
I've been struggling with this for 3 days already.
I've downloaded and installed NOOBS they say that my partition of my sd card should be fully available to use for files and such.
Stil when I put it in my osx yosemite I only see 2 partitions boot & recovery. 60 ish mb & 860 is mb respectively. The sd card itself is 8 gb.
When using pi finder I can get the files (movie files bigger then 800mb) on the sd card. But when I drag and drop it on the sd card on my osx. It says not enough disk space. How can I change this. The person I'm making this for needs to drag and drop his files on the sd card directly and I don't want to have him copying it with pi finder. How can I make the readable partition bigger for osx..
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DanishPecan
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Re: Noobs sd card resize
OS X is only seeing the 2 FAT partitions, RECOVERY and BOOT, and you don't want to be using those for data storage. Just like Windows, in order to read/write to an ext4 filesystem OS X requires that additional software be installed.
I'd use a USB flashdrive (FAT formatted) instead of using the SD Card. It will save wear and tear on your system SD (both write cycles and plugging in/out), and you can stick the flashdrive into either OS X, Windows, or Linux (RPi) and access the files.
I'd use a USB flashdrive (FAT formatted) instead of using the SD Card. It will save wear and tear on your system SD (both write cycles and plugging in/out), and you can stick the flashdrive into either OS X, Windows, or Linux (RPi) and access the files.
Last edited by JimmyN on Sat Sep 05, 2015 2:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Noobs sd card resize
You can't. That's how the Pi works.
With NOOBS, it comes with partitions, but OSX can only see the FAT32 formatted partitions:
partition 1: NOOBS recovery - FAT32
partition 2: Extended partition holding the OSs
partition 3: NOOBS settings - ext4
partition 5: Raspbian boot files - FAT32
partition 6: Raspbian files - ext4
That in bold is what you see, because OSX by default can only see the FAT32 partitions. Where your files are stored is in italics, the only way to do this, without extra software on your computer, is by network, or using my rpi-transfer.
You could use my rpi-transfer, no software is needed on the computer, simply a small Python script on the Pi itself. The link is in my signature. Although the files you can transfer are limited by the size of the first partition.
With NOOBS, it comes with partitions, but OSX can only see the FAT32 formatted partitions:
partition 1: NOOBS recovery - FAT32
partition 2: Extended partition holding the OSs
partition 3: NOOBS settings - ext4
partition 5: Raspbian boot files - FAT32
partition 6: Raspbian files - ext4
That in bold is what you see, because OSX by default can only see the FAT32 partitions. Where your files are stored is in italics, the only way to do this, without extra software on your computer, is by network, or using my rpi-transfer.
You could use my rpi-transfer, no software is needed on the computer, simply a small Python script on the Pi itself. The link is in my signature. Although the files you can transfer are limited by the size of the first partition.
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