Hello,
I have an usb 2T0 hard disk with several partition. I want to install OSMC on one of them without having to delete the entire contents of the hard drive .
Is it possible to change the usb installation so that we can choose the destination partition ?
Or how to do it manually ?
thank you
At this time we don’t have the option for precise partitioning. We just make one big ext4 partition on the target device.
This will probably change in a month or so.
Just wondering if this functionality exists yet. I’d like to do the same thing–install to a 2 TB HD on a specific partition. Thanks.
I’m looking for something similar. I actually want to create a separate partition on my SD Card, and then combine that with a 64GB USB drive and stripe data across both of them, so they’ll look like a single 120GB HDD (I need the footprint to be very small). Anyway, I tried both parted and fdisk to create different sized partitions but it end up corrupting the installation. Anyone have ideas that might work?
Thanks.
OH BTW - I’m on the Vero, not the RPi. Just wanted to keep the conversation together.
You are looking for LVM (Logical Volume Management). I would not recommend mixing this across mediums, as your IO will fall off a cliff and you could get unexpected results. What if the OSMC SD card gets corrupted and you need to re-image the system?
Buying two USB disks may be the key here. You could start with one 64-gb drive for now in the following way:
When (if?) you add more disks, add the new disk to the volumegroup vgadd, then use lvextend to extend the volume. You can then use resize2fs to grow the volume.
S
Awesome Sam thank you. I see your points. And hey, if you’re saying it’s not a good idea, I’m persuaded. I’m going to try what you said here. I’ll just keep the 64GB SD card and use the extra room as storage for a backup, and then use 1-2 USB drives.
I guess maybe a different (or “the right”) question is this: if I need a player to have ~100GB storage and I want to keep the form factor small and attempt at controlling cost, is the Vero the best solution? I have a collection of devices that I’m testing (NUC, Chromebox, RPi, RPi2, Nexus Player, AFTV, and waiting on the new NUC and the Intel Compute Stick) and I like this little box, but sure wish I could expand the local storage.
I think a portable USB hard drive is the most cost effective solution.
Sam
Is it now possible now to select a partition on USB drive, where OSMC will be installed? I don’t see such option in the installer, but maybe I’m looking in the wrong place.
No, the entire USB will be overwritten.