USB3.0 SSD 500GB doesn't resize, stuck with 3.3gb rootfs

[Doopie]

Hi,

I've seen the question asked many times but there is no working solution for this( ? )

Hardware:
Odroid N2
500GB Samsung USB3.1 T5 SSD

What i've done:
Downloaded the Odroid N2 image
Put in on the SSD

It boots and it installs without problems. but with a problem and that it's NOT resizing the partition like it does when you install on a SD-card.

I edited the boot.ini and the fstab to use /dev/sda1. I even edited the /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-resize-filesystem to hardcode /dev/sda1 into the file

 

When i run sudo systemctl start armbian-resize-filesystem nothing happens. Well if i added an extra partition it's gone after that. Luckily i had no data on it yet because i'm still exploring.

Is there any good way to get this working on the SSD ( or any other media that is not a SD or eMMC card. ).



 

 

 

[martinayotte]

You can do the resize manually using "fdisk" and "resize2fs", it is what "armbian-resize-filesystem" is doing anyway ...

 

[Doopie]

Thanks martinayotte but I tried that but ended up with a bad disk:

 

This is what i get with fdisk -l ( used a 32gb sd to create the image that is now on the SSD)

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        8192 61324351 61316160 29,2G 83 Linux

 

But when i try to write with fdisk i get this:
First sector (65535-976773167, default 65535):

So this will render the drive unbootable

And it seems i'm not the only only one having this  trouble with fdisk( and maybe that's why Armbian doesn't resize the partition )
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/303354/why-does-fdisk-insist-on-starting-the-first-partition-at-sector-65535-mib-31-99

I ended up using another Linux computer to use Parted. That seemed to work. fdisk is not the right tool to use and that's causing the problems, so it seems.

[martinayotte]

7 minutes ago, Doopie said:

Thanks martinayotte but I tried that but ended up with a bad disk:

The way to do it with fdisk is :

- print existing partition to note the start sector and the type to be remembered .

- delete existing partition.

- create a new partition with same start sector seen previously seen but choose maximum size suggested.

- print again partition and see if type is good one, if not change the type.

- commit fdisk with "w".

- then, execute "resize2fs <partition>"

7 minutes ago, Doopie said:

I ended up using another Linux computer to use Parted.

That is a good workaround ...