junjieftw
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I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:37 pm

I am completely new to RPI and I just purchased a PI4 for gaming usage, planning to use for GBA, PS1,2,3,PSP games.
Here is my DF -H, how do I get that extra 26GB from /dev/mmcblk0p9?? As I do not have enough space for my games. The retropie folder is in the /dev/root directory while there is a 26GB in /dev/mmcblk0p9. Pls Help, Thank You.

DirkS
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Re: I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:04 pm

junjieftw wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:37 pm
Here is my DF -H,
Where is it? Please post the full output.

drgeoff
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Re: I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:11 pm

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DF -H
will not provide anything useful.

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df -h
might.

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Re: I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:19 pm

junjieftw wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:37 pm
I am completely new to RPI and I just purchased a PI4 for gaming usage, planning to use for GBA, PS1,2,3,PSP games.
Here is my DF -H, how do I get that extra 26GB from /dev/mmcblk0p9?? As I do not have enough space for my games. The retropie folder is in the /dev/root directory while there is a 26GB in /dev/mmcblk0p9. Pls Help, Thank You.

Did you use NoobS / PiNN to install Operating System ?

https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/wi ... -explained



Maybe scrap what you have and just install Lakka which fully supports the 4B:

http://www.lakka.tv/articles/2019/08/01 ... 4-support/

http://www.lakka.tv/get/linux/rpi4/
Rather than negativity think outside the box !
RPi 4B 4GB (SSD Boot)..
Asus ChromeBox 3 Celeron is my other computer...

klricks
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Re: I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:51 pm

Did you use NOOBS to install 2 OS?
df -h will only show mounted partitions of the currently running OS. Partitions from other installed OS will not be shown.
Unless specified otherwise my response is based on the latest and fully updated RPiOS Buster w/ Desktop OS.

DirkS
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Re: I have a 64GB MicroSD but I can't figure out why I only have 30GB Space?

Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:23 pm

klricks wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:51 pm
df -h will only show mounted partitions of the currently running OS. Partitions from other installed OS will not be shown.
True. 'lsblk' should show all disks/partitions and sizes though

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