Batocera 5.20 install on 3TB HDD - partition issues?

retrodude

Hello,

I'm installing Batocera 5.20 x86_64 on a Dell OptiPlex 960 SFF PC. It's a Dual Core E8400 3GHz with a Hitachi 3TB Internal HDD. I booted Batocera 5.20 x86_64 from a USB image and used the 'install Batocera to a disk' image and also booted from a Linux Live CD to write the .img file to the drive, but run into the same issue:

The partition seems to be fat32/msdos and only 2GB in size. The rest of the disk never gets expanded/partitioned (even after a few reboots). Disk storage shows 'N/A' in the Batocera UI. Is there a suggested way to expand the partition manually or am I missing something on install to get it to use GPT/ext4 for the disk? Thanks for your help, love the project.

Info:

uname -a

Linux BATOCERA 4.18.20 #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 02:18:58 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev
/dev/sda1 1.9G 808.3M 1.1G 43% /boot
tmpfs 256.0M 16.0K 256.0M 0% /overlay
/dev/loop0 798.4M 798.4M 0 100% /overlay/base
overlay 256.0M 16.0K 256.0M 0% /
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.8G 8.0K 3.8G 0% /tmp
tmpfs 3.8G 5.2M 3.8G 0% /var
tmpfs 3.8G 236.0K 3.8G 0% /run
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /media
tmpfs 128.0M 29.6M 98.4M 23% /recalbox/share

parted

GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA Hitachi HUS72403 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 647kB 1993MB 1992MB primary fat32 lba

dmesg showing the disk info:
[ 0.965680] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HUS724030ALE641, MJ8OA5F0, max UDMA/133
[ 0.967629] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HUS72403 A5F0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

nadenislamarre

there is a limitation on installing the system on a > 2tb disk cause of mbr gpt
install batocera on a smaller disk and your data on a 3tb will work. (2 disks required)

retrodude

OK thank you. I will install on a smaller boot disk or perhaps just boot from USB.

Dragu

You can also try to convert your mbr partition table to gpt. In Minitool Partition Wizard you have an option to convert disks live. I already did it with success. But better to make backup before. 🙂 If you have USB3.x on board and USB3.x memory stick, no reason to boot from hdd.