I have volumio running on a 8gb SD card.
Can I use the rest of the free space on the card to store a few albums? Is there a command I can run to use up the rest of the space.
Is there a specific location I would need to store it in order for MPD to pick it up?
Yes I’m on a Pi. I tried that and selected Expand Filesystem
but got this message.
Your partition layout is not currently supported by this │
│ tool. You are probably using NOOBS, in which case your │
│ root filesystem is already expanded anyway.
But the biggest partition is 1.5gb, which is 82% full with Volumio.
Other partitions are no more than 100mb so there’s still a few GB unaccounted for.
The device in question for Volumio is still /dev/mmcblk0 however, the partition to modify in the fdisk tool is partition 3. The filesystem to resize with resize2fs is hence /dev/mmcblk0p3
It boils down to:
$ fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
destroy and recreate partiion 3 as to consume the rest of the space
reboot
$ resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p3
Afterwards, 28G of my 32G SD card is free on the root filesystem.
Not the best idea? Why not? If someone has a large SD card, I think it’s brilliant! Being able to pull music from an attached drive or the network is essential, but pulling it off the SD frees you from that requirement. And it becomes easily portable. Awesome.
I’ve got a big SD just waiting for Volumio and a LOT of music. Hope this gets supported. Thanks.
i tryed the manual to use the ramaining space on the sd for music. but after the final reboot, my raspberry always shut down. does anybody know, how i can solve the problem?
i have a raspberry pi model b with a hifi berry upgrade. i was in holidays, so i also will try it with the new volumio update.
thanks forward
— update 14.08.2014 ----
it worked
the raspberry doesn’t shut down, but i don’t understand how i save the music on the sd. can anybody help?
my knowledge for this isn’t big, so could the person who knows the answer, describe it in easy steps? thanks forward
I installed Volumio on a 64GB SD card, and I was hoping to use the extra space for music files.
I have successfully expanded the partition to use the full size of the SD card, then created a /home/pi/sdmusic folder to host my local music files.
But what is the best way to use this folder with Volumio?
I tried adding a link to the folder within the /var/lib/mpd/music/WEBRADIO. (I.e. /var/lib/mpd/music/WEBRADIO/sdmusic)
That partially worked, I can navigate to WEBRADIO/sdmusic with the UI and play the files, but on an external PC the WEBRADIO/sdmusic folder appears to be read only, even though I opened up all of the permissions on the Raspberry Pi (or so I think).
Is there documentation somewhere about how /var/lib/mpd/music/ shares its contents on the local network?
thanks!
You should check the smb share settings. I think you might have set it to read only for the group you pc is in. Or with the lack of a group the all users are on read only.
Many thanks for your tips to enlarge partition to fill enitrely the sd card.
Unfortunately I have created following directory, but I am unable to see it in the web interface even if I refresh library.
root@volumio:/var/lib/mpd/music# ls
NAS RAMPLAY SDCARD UPNP USB WEBRADIO
i got the same problem with my SD-Card. I was able to expand the Volume to 30G but i was not able to create a symbolic link to my created folder (trying fpr several hours now):
First i created a ne folder “SD” in /var/lib/mpd/music:
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$ sudo mkdir SD
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$ sudo chmod 777 SD
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 13 2013 NAS -> /mnt/NAS/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 8 2014 RAMPLAY -> /run/shm
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 17:43 SD
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 22 2014 UPNP -> /mnt/UPNP
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 8 Jul 30 2013 USB -> /mnt/USB
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Sep 7 2013 WEBRADIO
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$
Then i tried to create the symbolic link, but when i got it and tryed to upload to my folder SD throught FileZilla i always ended up in the /mnt/USB folder after clicking my SD-folder (/var/lib/mpd/music/SD).
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$ sudo ln -s /mnt/USB /var/lib/mpd/music/SD
pi@HiFiBerry:/var/lib/mpd/music$ ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 13 2013 NAS -> /mnt/NAS/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 8 2014 RAMPLAY -> /run/shm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 4 16:53 SD -> /mnt/USB
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 22 2014 UPNP -> /mnt/UPNP
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 8 Jul 30 2013 USB -> /mnt/USB
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Sep 7 2013 WEBRADIO
Its quiet clear, because i liked both folders but through this i´m unable to upload files to this folder.
SO can anyone tell me a simple way to fix my problem or another way to upload my music to the internel micro-sd. I want to be able to play theses files over the WebUI afterwards.