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    SD Card Full in Retropie?!

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    • DarkkMatterD
      DarkkMatter
      last edited by DarkkMatter

      So I have a 64GB SD Card for the Retropie, and when I open File Manager at the bottom I see 53/59GB 90%. I'm assuming this means that 90% of the space is considered used by the system?
      I went into the Raspi-Config and under Advanced Options Expanded the file system, which completed successfully. It states "Root partition has been resized," "The filesystem will be enlarged upon next reboot." After a reboot and a restart both times I still see the same thing under File Manager: 53/59GB 90%?

      I'm at a loss here as all thats on the card is: Newest Retropie image and maybe 5GB of roms. Any clues as how to proceed to fix this issue?

      I will add that when I hit expand the file system it completes within 7 seconds, which is too fast to view the output as it defaults back to a menu.

      System Board: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Rev 1.3
      SD Card: 64GB
      Retropie Version: Updated to newest available version

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      • rbakerR
        rbaker @DarkkMatter
        last edited by rbaker

        @darkkmatter This shows the 53Mb boot/config partition then 59GB of free space. 59+5=64GB like you said of your rom size.

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        • rbakerR
          rbaker @DarkkMatter
          last edited by

          @darkkmatter Also, type df -h from a command line to check the figures for available space.

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          • DarkkMatterD
            DarkkMatter
            last edited by

            Ok I did that command and I got used 5.4GB(10%) with 51GB available. So I guess I just misread the File Manager.

            What prompted me to misread the File Manager I suppose would be when I was scraping games and got a disk full or something else(forget what now) error message. However, I SSH'd into the Pi during the Scrape operation and perhaps that caused that error message and made me paranoid.

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