Well I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but the whole system becomes
laggy and unstable when I move the LMS cache files to the new Primary
ext4 partition. I've tried deleting and recreating the partition but the
result is the same. It's not a big deal, it works well with the cache
files in the
acanning wrote:
> I may have overdone itdoes it matter how large the partitions are?
>
> It's a 16gb card and I had previously resized one of the partitions
> within PCP to 2000meg. The additional Primary partition is 4000meg. I
> know it's overkill but I thought I might as well use the
I may have overdone itdoes it matter how large the partitions are?
It's a 16gb card and I had previously resized one of the partitions
within PCP to 2000meg. The additional Primary partition is 4000meg. I
know it's overkill but I thought I might as well use the space.
I'm away today and
Primary is the best choice as long as you only have maximum 4
partitions. Although I know I created extended partitions before doing
testing with somewhere around 8 partitions.
How big is that partition?
piCorePlayer a small player for the Raspberry Pi in RAM.
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Yep, it's definately got something to do with the new partition. When I
Move the cache files back to the PcP boot disk it all works well again.
I'll have another go tomorrow
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Success!! :o
I used Lubuntu in the end and managed to alter the partition using KDE
Partition Manager. It was actually quite easy :)
Thanks again for all your help. I now have a Pi4 working quicker than
ever.
Best Wishes All
Paul
Many thanks. I don't want to create any more work for you so let me have
a play here first using either Gparted or my Linux laptop. I'll let you
know how I get on.
I appreciate your help.
Ashley
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Windows standard tools is not going to be easy to make an ext4 file
system, but you can used a gparted live cd. Or we can do it in a few
minutes via putty ssh session. I can do a screen capture when I get
home tonight.
Once you get your drives all configured you can copy your prefs,
Many thanks.
I'll give Gparted a go. I remembered that I also have a Linux laptop so
perhaps I'll have a look there as well.
One final (unrelated) questionis it possible to copy the prefs
folder from a previous M2P installation to the PCP installation? I have
the prefs folder I want to use
acanning wrote:
> Thank you to you both for responding, I'm very grateful.
>
> I presume I'm going to need to use Putty to create a further ext4
> partition? It can't be done in Windows can it? If that is the case them
> I'm afraid I will need some help.
>
> What is the optimum SD card size
What I would do.
1) resize your second partition on your pCP installation to 500mb.
2) Then add a third partition to the card. Format it to ext4
3) Point LMS to put the cache on that drive.
This way if something happens to the partition table, it shouldn't
affect the booting of the player.
1. Leave them in their default location somewhere on the system SD card.
But I assume this breaks one of the perceived benefits of PCP in that it
exists in memory and only accesses the SD on bootup.
I decided not to worry too much about this. And my system has been
running somewhere between
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