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Bonjour à vous,
I have an installation of Bionicpup64 on a USB key (16 GB) with data saving on the same key. The personal storage is 4 GB. I tried to resize it via the applet on the menu bar. That seems to be the maximum. Is it possible to increase or is it limited to 4 GB?
@BologneChe, I normally create another partition right
after flashing (in order to use the USB full capacity).
You can prob try:
1. Back up your savefile in another medium
2. Boot your PC with GParted
3. Make another (2nd) partition (ext4 or f2fs) on your 16GB USB
4. Restore the savefile to the newly created partition
Yes do as stated above.
You most likely have the USB with one partition formatted fat32.
They usually come that way when you buy them.
The save can only be a save file, because a Linux format is needed to make and use a save folder.
Fat32 format has a file size max limit of 4GB.
A Linux format (ext 2, 3, or 4) can handle much larger file sizes.
But if you make a partition that is in a Linux format.
It is better to make a save a save folder.
After moving the save file to the new partition.
You could change it to a save folder. ( folders only limited by how much free space is available to use, and are not a set size)
This little program can do that:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96472
From what I recall, the personal storage size limit is usually set by the system. You might need to dig into some advanced settings or maybe even try a different tool to resize it beyond the 4 GB limit.
FAT32 won't handle ANY single file larger than 4gb. Not just Puppy savefiles. Large video files, virtual machines, etc. over 4gb can not be saved on FAT32.
Most modern puppies can create larger savefiles than 4 gb on linux ext filesystems. Some of the older puppies did not recommend going above 2gb but that was a long time ago, and it wasn't an absolute prohibition.
Also, older Microsoft device partition table scheme (mbr) did not allow more than 4 primary partitions on a single drive. To wrestle more out of a drive you had to create a 4th "extended" partition, and then create additional "logical" partitions after that.
The newer GPT partition table scheme allows up to 128 primary partitions. GPT is only available on UEFI capable computers.
Doggy wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:05 pmFrom what I recall, the personal storage size limit is usually set by the system. You might need to dig into some advanced settings or maybe even try a different tool to resize it beyond the 4 GB limit.
The limit is set by the filesystem type. fat32 has a 4g limit.
After a few years of using Bionicpup64, I have now switched to Jammypup32 (THANKS @peebee ). Everything works perfectly, I have sufficient disk space and completely satisfied. Thank you for your responses. 