Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Partitioning

[JamesPi74]

Hi Guys,
I bought a Raspberry Pi starter kit with Noobs preinstalled in the hope I could circumvent the process of setting up the operating system. Sadly when I received it the first message on the screen was an error straight out of the box. As such I had to go through the process of downloading the formatting software and Noobs. It was all pretty straight forward and the Rasberry Pi is working fine.
My problem is that the SD Card is an 8GB card but only showing up as a 2gb card. When I copy OctoPrint over to it, it says there is not enough room.
I have spent 2 days downloading Tuxboot and Clonezilla but am out of my depth. I created a boot drive on a usb key however it only works on my work PC and not the two laptops I have at home.
It won't work on Windows 10 and even when it was working (on a windows 8 laptop) I couldn't find any clear instruction of what I am meant to be doing.
There was one link from RaspberryPiIVBeginners that went through a process which I followed but at the end of the page after doing all of the commands it said "does not work on the latest model" (little hint - this should be at the top of the page!).
I would love some help with this as after downloading many new programs it has all become a jumble and I'm no longer thinking straight.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

[fruitoftheloom]

NoobS has its own portioning scheme: https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/wi ... -explained

Windows will only show the first FAT32 partition, it will not show Linux EXT formatted partitions.


IMO just install Raspbian Jessie without using NoobS and start afresh:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian

[jbudd]

Edit....

I don't use NOOBS but presumably it reserves some of the SD card space for itself and OS images.
To get the greatest available space on your SD card it's best to install Raspbian directly rather than NOOBS.

Download the image (edit again) either Raspbian or Octoprint, which I believe is a full RPI OS and write it to the SD with Win32DiskImager or consider PiBakery "The easiest way to set up a raspberry pi" pibakery.org

[JamesPi74]

Thanks so much for the response. It turns out my problem was that the card was formatted correctly and partitioned correctly. I needed to use win32 disk imager to expand the Octoprint software onto the card. This placed it in the invisible portion of the linux partition and the rest was simple.
I managed to set up the wifi, webcam and 3d printer last night. What a relief!
Thanks for the extra info.

[HawaiianPi]

Thanks so much for the response. It turns out my problem was that the card was formatted correctly and partitioned correctly. I needed to use win32 disk imager to expand the Octoprint software onto the card. This placed it in the invisible portion of the linux partition and the rest was simple.
I managed to set up the wifi, webcam and 3d printer last night. What a relief!
Thanks for the extra info.

Glad you got it working, but what you said above is not entirely correct. Image files contain their own complete OS and filesystems. When you use Win32DiskImager to write an image it completely replaces whatever was on the card previously with the new OS and filesystem. So it doesn't matter how your card was formatted previously, because the image wiped all that when it was written to the card.

NOOBS is an OS installer. It acts as a front end for installing multiple operating systems, but NOOBS itself is not an OS (not in the traditional sense).

Raspbian and Octoprint .img files are complete filesystems containing an OS and software.

I hope that helps you understand it better.

[JamesPi74]

Thanks for clearing that up. That makes a lot more sense now. Ill get a second sd card and play around to learn more. For now Im just glad its working.