02:05 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> Herc: not all images has been replace

02:05 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> d

06:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Good thing I managed to rescue 100% of the drive, time to check and see if it is a working filesystem

10:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> An image that I've pulled from the sd card has 4MB of unallocated storage before the main ext4 partition and 230Mb of unallocated space after. After making a copy, resizing the partition and truncating the image file to fit on a new sd card that is slightly smaller (despite both advertising as 32GB), I then had problems running gparted on the resulting image hwen it was flashed t <clipped message>

10:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> o the sd card and e2fsck was setting a lot of inodes' i_size to 0. Did I mess something up? DId the unallocated space at the end of the image have something meaningful? How the hell does that affect the ext4 filesystem that I resized properly *before* truncating the image? So weird. The system was running on an OrangePi PC, I think it was based off of some buster image at the tim <clipped message>

10:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> e and I just kept upgrading the packages, if that matters in terms of knowing the bootloader setup or smth.

10:09 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> The e2fsck actually processes so many inodes and prompts their i_size to be set to 0 that my terminal's buffer barely keeps up and gparetd freezes

10:09 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> The e2fsck actually processes so many inodes and prompts their i_size to be set to 0 that my terminal's buffer barely keeps up and gparted freezes

10:12 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> First time dealing with something like that

10:13 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I know that starting wit ha fresh image would probably be better, but I already have set up so much stuff over the years and used to it by now that I just want to fix this image and keep going until I can do a proper migration to new hardware

10:13 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I know that starting with a fresh image would probably be better, but I already have set up so much stuff over the years and used to it by now that I just want to fix this image and keep going until I can do a proper migration to new hardware

10:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Although I think u-boot is placed at the beginning of the partition, not the end. And unallocated space after the partition shouldn't affect ext4 e2fsck...

10:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Trying again

10:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> This time the image itself works and has no e2fsck trying to erase all of it

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Huh, weird, I get a different partition size when I write the image to the sd card than when I use it in a loop device:

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> ```

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> /dev/loop0p1 8192 55789567 55781376 26.6G 83 Linux

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> /dev/sde1 8192 47497215 47489024 22.6G 83 Linux

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> ```

19:38 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> That's with `dd if=/img_file.img of=/dev/sde status=progress`, now I'm trying to copy from the loop devcie directly

19:52 <RoyK> erm - how can I configure wifi? I've setup wpa_supplicant.conf, but I can't find the IP config. no nmtui/nmcli here

19:52 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> RoyK: which type of image are you on?

19:52 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> is your host auto-fscking?

19:53 <RoyK> Armbian_24.11.1_Rpi4b_bookworm_current_6.6.60_minimal.img

19:54 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> menu: I don't know

19:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> fsck on the loop device has no isssues

19:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> And e2fsck too

19:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> (ofc I run it on `/dev/loop0p1`)

19:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> (ofc I run it on `/dev/loop0p1` and `/dev/sde1`)

20:00 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> And it's weird that `fsck` and `e2fsck` give different results even though `fsck` was supposed to be calling `e2fsck`

20:13 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Although, I do use different flags

20:14 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> `e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0` (this is what gparted uses mandatorily)

20:15 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> RoyK: don't minimal images use systemd-networkd by default?

20:15 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> i don't pretend to understand the wizardry extfs does

20:17 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> RoyK: manual https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/ wizzard way: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/Network/

20:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Hmm, after copying directly from teh loop device, the partition is still 22.6G instead of 26.6G

20:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> And I think 22.6G is exactly bang-on what the used space is, weird

20:45 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> No, 20.93G is the amount of used space

20:45 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I'm confused and now zeroing out the devcie completely

21:06 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ⤴️ **Pull request** to [armbian/documentation](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - **Please review!** 👉 [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/documentation/pull/547>): *Add release info for 24.11.1*

22:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> uhhh after zeroing out the devcie with dd gparted and fdisk still show that there are partitions on it, somthing's wrong with teh sd card

22:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> uhhh after zeroing out the devcie with dd gparted and fdisk still show that there are partitions on it, somthing's wrong with the sd card

22:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> uhhh after zeroing out the devcie with dd gparted and fdisk still show that there are partitions on it, something's wrong with the sd card

22:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I need a crapton of new sd cards I guess

22:32 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> yeah, if you can get hands on those, get some https://amzn.to/3ZnNBee

22:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> well, amazon isn't available in my country and not all marketplaces have good trust. My last buy was a couple of 32GB sd cards from smartbuy I used to test bigtreetech images, bought from a reliable retailer in-person. Even though my dada promised to bring some moew 32gb sd cards, I doubt they are of high enough quality.

22:41 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Yeah, no writes to teh sd card work, can't even put a new partition table on it

22:45 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I'll stock up on 4 32GB cards like these but I'm not used to them being so expensive, about 15 usd a piece, I'm used to that being about half the price

23:53 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> nah SD cards do this sometimes, convert it to GPT with fdisk and it should fix it

23:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Nope, this doesn't alter anything on the sd card

23:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> It just seems to be ignoring any writes

23:55 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> is it overheated? have you remounted it (physically)?

23:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Yes, it has been sitting on my desk and it's room tremperature, then I plugged it in to test you suggestion

23:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> it'd be a shame if you've killed the card

23:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> you *did* use the write command in fdisk before quitting right?

23:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Yes

23:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> it's a mistake i have made many times