According to wikipediaI am relatively new to Raspberry Pi, have been using various GNU/Linux flavours for about 10 years, I have bought two Pi's to play around with, a Pi 400 and a Pi 5.
I have installed Raspberry PiOS on a 4TiB Samsung SSD, and found the OS only used 2TiB, I have tried to grow the drive to fill all the space, but this fails with an error message indicating it is an MSDOS limitation.
Is this true, or is there some way around it.
Thanks.
I can't answer your question. But as comments intended to be helpful by provoking thought -
Physical drives, partitions, and filesystems are slightly different things. I may be misinterpreting what you intended.
Your topic mentions the BOOT drive. There is a small boot partition. Why would you need that to be any bigger. And it HAS to be FAT-formatted.
Can the filesystem type (ext4 I think) used for the RasPiOS root filesystem be larger than what you have encountered? (I think so, but worth checking.)
Maybe your attempts to grow the FS are wrong? (Where does MSDOS come into the picture? A standard FAT partition is used for the BOOT filesystem - that isn't changeable.)
Maybe there are implementation limits in the partition management tools used by RasPiOS and yourself?
Can the specific SSD really handle 4TiB as claimed?
"The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes in theory up to 64 zebibyte (ZiB) and single files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes (TiB) with the standard 4 KiB block size, and volumes with sizes up to 1 yobibyte (YiB) with 64 KiB clusters, though a limitation in the extent format makes 1 exbibyte (EiB) the practical limit."
Statistics: Posted by kip_the_elder — Mon Jul 08, 2024 9:35 am