Hi. I’m just getting started with mender and try to convert the installation of a x64 host. For that I followed INTEL NUC x86-64 Ubuntu 18.04 with a few small changes. My main difference is that I use a 256GB SSD onto which I would like to have the following partition table. 512MB boot/EFI parti…

Yes, like @elipsion says, the data partition is grown on boot, to fill the available space, and this is enabled by default, here and here :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Thank you @elipsion and @oleorhagen . Yes, I noticed this as well. In the log files I also noticed that the filesystem was grown to the full size of the partition. That was not really the problem. My concern is that I want to have a data partition that will be resized (partition size and filesyste…

Check the boot log for errors, as it should expand the data partition if its the last partition and resize the file system to fill it on boot. However saying that, if you do see errors then i have observed similar issues on my x86 projects and have needed to supplement the systemd growfs feature …

The gpt issue can be fixed up with sgdisk tool, I believe there are other discussions on the topic in the forum, [image] Mender-Convert UEFI GPT Output Image General Discussions Thanks for looking in to this. Looks simple enough slight_smile . I like the conditional appr…

Hi @dellgreen . sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I found a few more problems blocking me. :sweat: Mainly EFI not booting into mender’s grub.cfg but another one from the original OS installation. Removing that entry with efibootmgr gave me a booting system. So, I tried again and made s…

I have just taken a look back at my projects, and i can see that it clearly wasnt working for me either, so the custom systemd service that I added uses sgdisk to fix GPT issues, grow the last partition, and notify the kernel of the parition table change if it was changed, prior to systemd mounting…

Thanks again for the update. I didn’t find the time to continue this project until now. Looking at the approach mender takes to resize the partition I found what I believe to be the issue on at least my machine. Mender uses parted to try to resize the partition, meta-mender/mender-client-resize-da…

Large persistent data partition without large image file

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elipsion August 30, 2021, 2:59pm 2

Have a look at mender-growfs-data

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Large persistent data partition without large image file

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