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  • 11/22/2015 at 15:09 #110465
    philmw60
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    Hi,

    I’m running an image of Retropie without any real issues on an 8GB Micro SD card. I downloaded the image from this website and used a tool to deploy it to my Micro SD card.

    My issue is that sometimes I am unable to save the game state and I think this is because my filesystem is full. When I exit emulationstation I see a message stating “rootfs size 1.8GB, used 1.7GB, 100%.

    I’m confused because my MicroSD card is 8GB so surely it has spare capacity?

    When I view my MicroSD card in windows it simply shows as “Boot” with 42 / 58MB free. So I guess when it boots on the Pi, it unpacks to a temporary filesystem?

    Can anyone explain how it works and if it’s possible to specify a larger filesystem?

    Many Thanks,

    Phil

    11/22/2015 at 15:29 #110466
    lilbud
    Participant

    Did you expand filesystem, Also, what size SD card are you using?

    11/22/2015 at 15:31 #110467
    philmw60
    Participant

    Apologies I’m very new to Linux, how would I expand the filesystem? It’s an 8GB SD card.

    11/22/2015 at 15:38 #110469
    Floob
    Member

    You can see that here:
    https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation#expand-file-system

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