Hi,
Well Volumio on BBB has proved its worth to me - works perfectly w/ DragonFly Dac, not ONE pop or click, unlike all the other music servers…
So, one thing I wanted to do is expand the filesystem above the 2G image that Volumio installs. Has anyone done this? Can one just use
general BBB methods? (it is easy w/ r-pi…)
Second - someone mentioned off-loading the filesystem to usb to save wear and tear on the flash sd (something I’ve done successfully w/ the r-pi)
Any tips here?
Thanks for your help!
But I don’t know whether this would work w/ the Volumio distro… has anyone tried it had success?
I was going to try it, and so I shutdown my BBB running Volumio to make an image backup of my sd and try expanding the fs on the copy.
That is when I found out that shutting down my BBB did mysterious things to my volumio install: it wiped out any record of my nfs mounts,
my mpd song db, ethernet connection info, in short, all the web setup. so I got worried. I’ll give it a try perhaps later, on a duplicate sd image.
My verdict so far (after having tried 3 or 4 other such players/music db combos like this) is that volumio is terrific with playing music and handling
diverse usb dacs (all the others have failed in one way or another), BUT I don’t understand what it’s doing w/ filesystems, and unless I can get
it to behave reliably and boot up to the same state it was left in when shutdown-- the minimum standard for computation, IMHO, then I will be at a loss.
Solved: expanding the BBB filesystem in the conventional way as noted by
the 2 URLS in this thread – using fdisk on the proper partition (partition 2 if booted from SD), and then rebooting
and using resize2fs on the /dev/mmcp that corresponds to this partition works perfectly.
As usual, one must be careful with fdisk, but the defaults it suggests all work fine it seems,
and it’s really straightforward.