09:30 <Armbian-Discord> <k​prasadvnsi> The amount of upstream patches Mediatek is submitting for their MT8183 is just 180 turn from what they usually do.🤣

09:35 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> I'm indeed impressed. Anyone has such a beast?

09:37 <Armbian-Discord> <k​prasadvnsi> It ship into tablet and Chrombooks that usually go for around $250-$350

09:38 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> Yeah, but I only found one (Acer?) thats EUR 500+

09:38 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> And they're shipping ChromeOS with 32-bit userland still

09:39 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> so not all is good

09:39 <Armbian-Discord> <k​prasadvnsi> Here in India HP Chrombook 11a selling for about $320

09:41 <Armbian-Discord> <r​pardini> Could not find that, 11a's for sale here are Intel Celeron N3350 (?!)

09:42 <Armbian-Discord> <k​prasadvnsi> My hope is that all this upstreaming work by Mediatek will help with their p60, p70 SoC used in mid range phone. The internals are basically the same.

15:12 <nekomancer[m]> ban mediatek!

15:45 <Armbian-Discord> <T​onymac32> Lol as opposed to any of these other beacons of quality we use?

15:46 <c0rnelius> :)

17:13 <Armbian-Discord> <R​ichNeese> mr TM32 what are you doing

17:30 <steev> since y'all build a lot of images and test them... have y'all seen ext4 just drop its journal while resizing the filesystem?

17:41 <c0rnelius> What are you doing to resize? Like whats ur method of attack?

17:45 <[TheBug]> would sound like you somehow resized it maybe too small and eliminated the space the journal was stored in the process?

17:46 <[TheBug]> because otherwise it will force an fsck in advance which should confirm the journal state before allowing a resize

17:46 <[TheBug]> and then once you finish resize you should ALWAYS fsck again

17:46 <[TheBug]> so if something does break it is repaired

17:47 <[TheBug]> before you start using the system again

17:49 <c0rnelius> I normally use growpart and than resize2fs... Which is usually pretty kosher. You should also force the fsck in the cmdline `fsck.repair=yes`

18:10 <stipa> kprasadvnsi: what are the odds of those phones having fully functional linux support?

18:13 <stipa> they're like sub 150$ / https://www.kimovil.com/en/list-smartphones-by-processor/mediatek-helio-p40-mt6671

18:21 <steev> c0rnelius: parted to increase to ~100%, and then resize2fs, but for whatever reason *every* time i use ext4, it drops the journal. on armhf devices, a reboot and fsck, it's fine but arm64 devices the journal is just gonzo

18:22 <[TheBug]> are you fscking before resize2fs?

18:22 <steev> i am not

18:22 <[TheBug]> if not you should be doing an fsck.ext4 -f -y /dev

18:23 <[TheBug]> before you resize

18:23 <steev> interesting, i've never had to do that before

18:23 <[TheBug]> then once resize is completed

18:23 <[TheBug]> this makes sure the file system you are resizing is cleaned and not super fragmented

18:23 <steev> well it's on the first boot, so i'd hope it is

18:23 <steev> isn't*

18:24 <steev> i do fsck it before booting and there are no issues

18:26 <c0rnelius> You aren't losing ur PARTUUID during resize on firstboot when on armhf? Anyway, I would place a force fsck in the cmdline and look into growpart. Its a very simple way of achieving the said goal with zero effort.

18:26 <c0rnelius> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canonical/cloud-utils/main/bin/growpart

18:27 <steev> yeah i'm familiar with growpart, i think i might just switch to it

18:28 <c0rnelius> You only need the script and the depends... which is just fdisk I thinks?

18:28 <[TheBug]> I was trying to find a good reference for this and I have found that a lot of references do lack the direction to fsck before resize2fs but any good documentation on using resize2fs should provide the steps of , change the partition, fsck, resize2fs, fsck again

18:29 <[TheBug]> This is a good example: https://snapshooter.com/blog/how-to-grow-an-ext234-file-system-with-resize2fs-

18:30 <c0rnelius> Good thing about growpart is works with pretty much everything. You just need to switch up the resize depending on the FSTYPE.

18:32 <[TheBug]> growpart is essentiall just a frontend for resize2fs if I read correctly, so I guess if just following its context is easier than manually going through the process it could be the easier approach

18:33 <c0rnelius> Basic example of using growpart with resize2fs - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyavitz/debian-image-builder/feature/files/scripts/firstboot

18:34 <c0rnelius> When you get into armel and armhf its gets more tricky as you need to account for PARTUUID changes.

19:13 <Armbian-Discord> <R​ichNeese> you dont have to armbian should auto resize

19:14 <Armbian-Discord> <R​ichNeese> part of the first run script is it resizes the partition to the size of the sd card

19:14 <Armbian-Discord> <R​ichNeese> man I forgot how lon on a dualcore system it takes to compile a kernel

19:22 <steev> sorry rich, this is for a different distro :) i figured i'd ask in case someone had seen it before