Mounted hard drive and now getting device full errors when updating/installing new packages

pastamasta

Hi all. Running a Pie 3 on the old 4.3 Jessie system. Decided to hook up a 1tb hard drive and store my roms there. The SD card obviously did it's thing and became the boot device as a result. Everything going fine and roms are playing off the hd.

Problem is now I keep getting errors when I want to make config changes (e.g. select a new emulator) to installing/updating new packages - it keeps telling me the device is full. The card has a 56mb partition with another 128gb to spare, so I dunno what is up.

I'm pretty new to tinkering with this thing. If worse comes to worst, I can update to Stretch and keep the hard drive as rom storage, right?

Thanks folks.

sirhenrythe5th

@pastamasta

I'm pretty new to tinkering with this thing. If worse comes to worst, I can update to Stretch and keep the hard drive as rom storage, right?

It is not that easy to update Jessie -> Stretch.
It is somehow possible but with lot of tinkering and issues.
It is recommended to build a stretch-image from the scratch (what i did as many others).

Just to say that, i cannot help as i never used external storage-devices.

pastamasta

Thanks for the help.

Yeah, I can see that a lot of people don't recommend updating to Stretch from Jessie.

After a bit of looking, I can see that maybe my old roms on the card are still there when I boot up without the HD. Maybe the card is really full, but I can't access the other partition on Windows to delete a few things and test.

I'm guessing this might be a bit difficult to fix on a PC...

sirhenrythe5th

I use my smartphone with the "File-Commander" to add/delete roms.
That should be possible for you too.
Just navigate to "/localnetwork/[URL of the Pi]/roms/ "
You wont have access to everything, but at least to the rom-folders which might be the best destination to get some free space ;)

pastamasta

@sirhenrythe5th

Hmm, that's actually a pretty good idea. I have an Android phone so I can probably give that a go. Cheers!

sirhenrythe5th

@pastamasta i also use an Android-Phone (SONY Xperia Z5Premium). I recommend to download the "File-Manager" via the App-Store for free.
It is very useful, not only concerning the Pi ;D

pastamasta

Will give it a try and tell ya how I go. Cheers mate!

pastamasta

Bugger. No dice. Can't get into it.

sirhenrythe5th

Just a correction: the tool is called "File Commander" ;)

I cant understand what the problem might be, i just navigate to /localnetwork/ in the file-browser and the IP of the Pi is shown there with full access.

What does happen when you do that?
Is the access denied?
Or does the Pi not show up in your local network?

pastamasta

That worked! Now I'll try take off some roms and see if that makes a difference.

pastamasta

I cannot believe that actually worked! I can actually install and update stuff! Thanks you absolute legend!

sirhenrythe5th

You are welcome mate, i am glad it worked that simple :)