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    Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only

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    • herb_fargusH
      herb_fargus administrators @jonnykesh
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      @jonnykesh but I paid for all 500 gigglebites!!

      If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

      Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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        Winklepicker @jonnykesh
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        @jonnykesh said in Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only:

        @winklepicker Read this https://www.tweakandtrick.com/2013/07/lost-storage-space.html
        The same applies to all storage media.

        thanks but I know its supposed to be less as all hd space are less than advertised. But its still much less than the 235gb, it shows on the system 235gb, but available only 224gb. Where did the 11gb storage go?

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators @Winklepicker
          last edited by

          @winklepicker also reserved space. https://odzangba.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/how-to-free-reserved-space-on-ext4-partitions/

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          • demesauceD
            demesauce Banned
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            Have you never formatted a hard drive before? Like, seriously; this is so dumb. Like everyone else is trying to tell you, raw disk space is different than formatted disk space. GET OVER IT!!!

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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators @demesauce
              last edited by BuZz

              @demesauce That was uncalled for - watch the attitude. Personal attacks will get you banned.

              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              • cyperghostC
                cyperghost @Winklepicker
                last edited by cyperghost

                [ironic]
                @winklepicker said in Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only:

                @jonnykesh said in Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only:

                @winklepicker Read this https://www.tweakandtrick.com/2013/07/lost-storage-space.html
                The same applies to all storage media.

                thanks but I know its supposed to be less as all hd space are less than advertised. But its still much less than the 235gb, it shows on the system 235gb, but available only 224gb. Where did the 11gb storage go?

                What a pitty. I think during production process your waver was cutted a way to small. Maybe annother person gots your missing 11GB and it's showing 267 GB free?
                [!ironic]

                Well take it as some people told you - it's journaling, it's the cluster size.... it's the format!

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                • BuZzB
                  BuZz administrators
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                  To reduce the amount of reserved space - do

                  tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mmcblk0p2
                  

                  That will set reserved space to 0% - be careful not to fill up the drive completely or the system may not boot correctly.

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  • demesauceD
                    demesauce Banned
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                    • demesauceD
                      demesauce Banned @BuZz
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                      @buzz My bad

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                        grant2258 Banned
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                        it isint less it measures in 1000 for hard drives

                        df -h = powers of 1024
                        df -H = powers of 1000 this is the one that hard drives go against

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                        • jonnykeshJ
                          jonnykesh @demesauce
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                          @demesauce Instead of posting "my bad" why don't you apologise to the person you insulted?

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                          • demesauceD
                            demesauce Banned @jonnykesh
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                            @jonnykesh ya.... that’s not gonna happen. Take a chill pill.

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                              Winklepicker
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                              @buzz said in Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only:

                              To reduce the amount of reserved space - do

                              tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mmcblk0p2
                              

                              That will set reserved space to 0% - be careful not to fill up the drive completely or the system may not boot correctly.

                              I would like to thank you BuZz for the very useful information and also jonnykesh for helping me and also pointing out information that can help me in future. :)

                              I did the command "tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mmcblk0p2" as BuZz mentioned, and it did indeed clear up the space so that the full 235g is now availble as useable space. Thank you very much for your help

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                              My only question is, now that I have done this command and freed up the reserved space to 0%, will that have any drastic or detrimental effect in the future to the raspberry pi or retropie setup?

                              In that article you linked it says that the system services only needs a couple of hundred megabytes, so it made sense to free up the reserved space. But should it have any effect later on, should I give it back afew hundred meg for system services? is there even a way that you can alter it later on down the line? or is it even needed?

                              Sorry for all the questions, I know some of what im asking may be boardine simple stuff, but I just wanted to make sure I had nothing to worry about with anything or with retropie later on down the line etc

                              kind regards

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                              • mituM
                                mitu Global Moderator @Winklepicker
                                last edited by mitu

                                @winklepicker said in Retropie 256gb micro sd showing as 224gb only:

                                My only question is, now that I have done this command and freed up the reserved space to 0%, will that have any drastic or detrimental effect in the future to the raspberry pi or retropie setup?

                                The reservation of 5% by default on a filesystem is traditionally done so that if a user program misbehaves, then it won't be able to fill up the disk (to 100%) The system would still be able to function/boot and the root (superuser) account would be able to log in to the system and fix things.
                                As long as you you don't go overboard and fill up your entire SD (well, 256Gb seems like a lot), there's no reason to worry, the OS doesn't depend of this reserved space to function in normal circumstances.

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                                • BiZzAr721B
                                  BiZzAr721
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                                  @Winklepicker Now at some time had passed, how has having that space unlocked been working out for you? Noticed any ill effects?

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