x64 system running 18.04.20 doesn't work too well

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring need me to run it again or slightly differently?

[paradadf]

@shamanmogz in case the script didn‘t run well, try it with the correct (raw) address:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/raw/c251d7eb56c5d12622c5189e48d23dc9ec79775b/board/recalbox/fsoverlay/recalbox/scripts/recalbox-part.sh

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring & @paradadf I re-ran the scripts augmenting the commands from my previous attempt and got the following results:

# sh ./recalbox-part.sh boot
/dev/sda1
# sh ./recalbox-part.sh system
/dev/sda2
# sh ./recalbox-part.sh share_internal
/dev/sda3

[Substring]

@shamanmogz it should be fine by now

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring

Afraid not, I tried making a change as you suggetsed and rebooting the machine, but still I get Storage N/A and settings don't persist.

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring I've listed my drives and get:

# cat /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1978844k,nr_inodes=494711,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=777 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /recalbox/share tmpfs rw,relatime,size=131072k 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocha**et=utf8,shortname=mixed,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0

or:

# blkid
/dev/sda2: LABEL="RECALBOX" UUID="3638b519-b279-4f9a-981c-cce4de83472f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="BOOT" UUID="7DD8-6D51" TYPE="vfat"

[ShamanMogz]

@substring If it's easier I'm happy to roll back to 18.03.30 and wait for the next release for this fix

[Substring]

@shamanmogz i don't get it ... It does find th root partition but can't have a share. Can you fdisk /dev/sda then p then enter and copy the result ? Press q then enter to quit

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring Ran fdisk as requested

# fdisk /dev/sda
fdisk: device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 267349.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1           9       65536   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2               9         311     2424018  83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary

Command (m for help): q

[Substring]

@shamanmogz i think i get it : how big is yout drive ? The device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them looks like we can't build the share partition.

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring My hard drive is now 3TB.

• When I started out I was using a 0.5TB hard drive on 18.03.30
• I upgraded that drive to 18.04.20 using the inbuilt UI in recalbox
  Then the problems started to happen
• I then changed drives to 3TB and used a fresh 18.04.20 image

Is there a maximum HDD that is supported?

[Substring]

@shamanmogz you make me search real deep ...
Recalbox uses a MBR partition table, not GPT. This limits the numver of sectors to 2^32, which is around 2TB.

Going to GPT may not be a good idea yet.

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring Ok I will roll back to my 0.5TB drive for now unless you think I can partition my 3TB to give me 2x 1.5TB internal shares.

[Substring]

@shamanmogz why do you need that much space ? If it's fully loaded es will be real slow probably.

And no, we could eventually have a 2TB internal share, but nothing more, the last TB would be wasted

[voljega]

@substring for a full collection of all systems, 2TB is not enough

[ShamanMogz]

@substring It's more to do with i have a 3TB HDD kicking around so why not use it. I'm flashing the 0.5TB as I type.

[Substring]

@shamanmogz you would be a good guinea pig for some advanced logging i've been working on. Would you agree to give a try to it ? You'd just need to change the updates.type value in recalbox.conf, make the upgrade and report some logs

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring yeah i'm cool with that. is there a better way to do this rather than using forum posts?

[Substring]

@shamanmogz discord ?

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring sure, just installing it. Note i don't have a mic on this system - i can get hold of one in a few days, but for now it's just text chat. What's your server?