USB boot; memory size incorrect

Schfifty

Hello,

First time poster & installer. I didn't have large enough SD card, only 2 GB, so I looked online for instructions on USB booting. I followed the instructions here. Everything seems to have worked as intended. However, now the USB stick, when plugged into my PC, says it only has 36.6 MB free; clearly not accurate.

I've tried sudo raspi-config and expanding but it didn't do anything. I went back and tried sudo resize2fs /dev/sda2/ and it said "The filesystem is already (4k) blocks long. Nothing to do!" So I checked df -h and it looks like /dev/root is reading the USB as the correct file size, but when I plug it into my PC it doesn't.

I'm bewildered and under-qualified to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

AlexMurphy

@Schfifty It doesn't need "fixed", it is behaving as expected. Your PC simply can't see the root file partition which is in ext4 format.

Schfifty

@AlexMurphy Well that's a relief. Now, how can I take advantage of the memory left? Anything over than 36mb says won't fit due to no more space. Is there another way I can load stuff greater than 36mb?

madmodder123

either

run linux from a live USB/CD/DVD (linux mint or ubuntu are nice) and then copy over files
or
use SSH https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

madmodder123

I meant use filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org/) but the login info is the same as the SSH PuTTy page

Schfifty

@madmodder123 Thank you! I will try this when I get home. Would something like Knoppix work as well? I think I'm going to try SSH first so I don't have to take the usb out of the Pi

madmodder123

@Schfifty said in USB boot; memory size incorrect:

@madmodder123 Thank you! I will try this when I get home. Would something like Knoppix work as well? I think I'm going to try SSH first so I don't have to take the usb out of the Pi

Yeah pretty much any linux distro will work