Partition resize of SailfishOS

[nerd7473]

I want to resize the partition tables of SailfishOS to allow 4GB of / and still be able to maintain a properly working device (granted, I don’t mind this if I can have my Android_storage on an SD card). Most of my important stuff is on the android_storage, so migrating that to the SD card (even if I have to re-link it later is fine). If I could move the entirety of /home and just link the paths to /dev/mmcblk0 that’d be fine as well…

[nerd7473]

I just feel like the 2Gb / partition fills up way too fast.

[peterleinchen]

Did you take a look here

Beginner Resource Collection

Let’s use this topic to collect some resources a beginner might find useful. Keep this user-centric, there’s other categories for development and other discussions. Official Jolla Resources Jolla Store get your SailfishOS licenses here! SailfishOS Blog for news and things User Guides the base (see also below links) Jolla User Guide SF1.0 (outdated) Jolla Tablet User Guide SF2.0 (outdated) Jolla Together legacy discussion and support forum (read-only, may go away) Jolla Ser…

and following up to
https://together.jolla.com/question/222126/guide-installing-sailfish-x-on-xperias/

and herein head to
https://together.jolla.com/question/222126/guide-installing-sailfish-x-on-xperias/#222126-33-increasing-the-root-lvm-volume-size

[nerd7473]

If I make these modifications, can a system update still happen properly?

[peterleinchen]

Oh yes.
And especially -if / is quite full- it only can happen with this modification

[nerd7473]

So, to recap, I should be able to move my /home to my SD and expand my / partition to fill the main eMMC?

[nerd7473]

If this wasn’t my main SFOS device, I’d already be doing it…

[hsjpekka]

I’ve expanded / of my X and X10. Works great.
Do the linked articles talk about moving /home to sd? At some point having ring tones & alarms in sd caused problems because sd was mounted at a bit late state during booting (iirc).

[nerd7473]

I’m not sure, since I’m still actively using this XA2, I can’t test it personally…

[rinigus]

don’t know the partition sizes on X & X10, but it is probably not needed to move /home to SD card. you can always symlink parts of it, if needed, and keep the main home on internal storage.

[defactofactotum]

Sorry if I hijack this a little Rinigus - I want to install Flatpak and I don’t have enough space on my XA2Ultra.

Resizing seems a little beyond my abilities…would it make a difference if I reflashed the phone to sfos4? Current install is upgraded to 4 from 3.2. TIA

[rinigus]

have you used --user while installing flatpak? user data seems to be sufficient. So, it seems you forgot that argument from docs.

[defactofactotum]

I just copypasted, so it seems unlikely…I’ll try again, thanks

[defactofactotum]

…I probably opened the terminal session as root. Anyway, installed ok now, thanks.