Amount of space left after retropie install?

PsychoPoo

Hey guys! Just bought my very first pi 3 yesterday and having/had some issues with installing retropie on the microsd. I downloaded Win32DiskImager and after a few attempts I kept getting error 1117. I tried on another computer and it worked.

My main question is once I burned the image, my computer was telling me that I then had only 58.7mb of space left on the card. It's a 32gb card and I've been reading that retropie takes up a little over 2gb. Is this normal that it took just about the whole card? Maybe I misread the total amount of space that it takes.

Thanks

Stuart2773

@PsychoPoo

have you tried expanding the file system within retropie?

goto into the retropie setup menu
select Raspi-Config
choose option 7 (Advance Options)
then choose A1 Expand Filesystem

hope that helps :)

rbaker

@PsychoPoo said in Amount of space left after retropie install?:

my computer was telling me that I then had only 58.7mb of space left on the card

Windows cannot see the hidden linux ext4 partition. See this thread.

ExarKunIv

i agree with @rbaker

you most likly will have 28 or 27 gig left to store your games, but windows will never show you anything.

you will need to use a USB stick to transfer your games here this way will be the easiest way for you

PsychoPoo

Thanks for the help guys! I ran the df -h and it looks like I have 27 gigs left if im reading it correctly and moving the games over by usb drive worked like a charm.