Creating New Partition on SDCARD for LocalStorage

[rune_tinker]

[ceejayemm]

Rune_Tinker

You have obviously put a lot of effort into this 'How To', thanks for your efforts. I wonder, however, if you would have been better using a smaller capacity SD Card for the RA system and putting your music on a USB flash drive, powered hard drive or network device. The reason being that if (when ?) you have to reflash the SD card you will potentially loose your music in the new partition. Newer versions of RA will expand the file system automatically to use the whole SD card. I would really suggest that you DONT put your music on the SD Card and consider a USB drive of some sort or use a network device to hold your music. It will also be easier to transfer music to such a device in the long run.

Regards.

Chris

[rune_tinker]

Thanks Chris.

Good point. It didn't occur to me that future OS versions might need more than 2GB.
So I might need to resize the card again.

I had started with plugging in a USB memory card with my music files. But as it was quite wide, and blocked another USB Port on the Pi (those ports are spaced so close to each other), I thought of using the onboard SDcard instead.

Good suggestion !

[BettyHatch]