How do I get use of all USB space
How do I get use of all USB space
I am running porteus on a 32 gig USB drive. Set for 2 gig persistance. Installed just a couple programs and gparted shows over 24 gig free space. When I went to install Dropbox I got a notice saying I didn't have space. How do I get full use of the thumb drive?
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
Have you tried clearing your browser cache and the unneeded dependencies that USM makes in its folder?
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
That didn't help
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
Is your USB Fat 32 or ext4 if it is Fat 32 that why you can't use all the USB space. You have use ext 2 ext3 or ext4 to use all the space.
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
That persistence a 2 GB save.dat file?shrimper wrote:I am running porteus on a 32 gig USB drive. Set for 2 gig persistance.
What do you mean by "install"? Porteus uses modules. And on my FAT32 USB drives with Porteus installed I put my modules in a folder on the USB drive then reference the folder with an extramod= cheatcode in the EFI/BOOT/rEFInd.conf and /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg files.Installed just a couple programs and gparted shows over 24 gig free space. When I went to install Dropbox I got a notice saying I didn't have space. How do I get full use of the thumb drive?
That is incorrect. You just have to know how to use it.Jack wrote:if it is Fat 32 that why you can't use all the USB space. You have use ext 2 ext3 or ext4 to use all the space.
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
Instead of 2 gig persistance make e.g. 24 gig persistance.How do I get full use of the thumb drive?
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
Thanks for the info. I will try changing the persistence.
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
I've never heard of modules being saved to the save.dat file. Let us know how that works for you shrimper.
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
I didn't save the modules to the save.dat, but to the modules folder. When I look at the folder that contains the Modules I see 24 gig available,but when I look at the core it shows only 1.6 gig. The Dropbox folder is inside the home so there is not enough room to sync all the folders. The core seems to only see part of the whole thumb drive.
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Re: How do I get use of all USB space
Met this problem before. Made module of it and used under Cinnamon. If wish to get Dropbox going, welcome to try it. 8) http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 152#p50006 (ignore link label).shrimper wrote:I am running porteus on a 32 gig USB drive. Set for 2 gig persistance. Installed just a couple programs and gparted shows over 24 gig free space. When I went to install Dropbox I got a notice saying I didn't have space.
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