Running a Stratux in test-bench mode (not in an aircraft, and for days at a time), you’ll likely run into an issue with disk space. The ISO image I acquired from Stratux only provided a 1.8 BG partition for things to live in, and it’s quickly exhausted.
Here is the status of my system after running for about 36 hours… it’s full.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 1.8G 1.8G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 459M 0 459M 0% /dev
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 463M 30M 434M 7% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 60M 20M 41M 34% /boot
Now to get about the business of increasing the partition and filesystem size without destroying it. First
Locate the disk device
Instructions on the web are not exactly correct, some suggest /dev/sda as the main device, however my testing shows it’s actually this named ‘/dev/mmcblk0’.
root@raspberrypi:~# fdisk -l | grep Disk
[...]
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14.5 GiB, 15523119104 bytes, 30318592 sectors
… with the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 131071 122880 60M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 131072 3887103 3756032 1.8G 83 LinuxRunning fdisk
With the physical partition located.. start fdisk:
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
I ended up creating 3 primary partitions. The plan is to delete partition 3 and then re-size the main partition to use up remaining space:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 131071 122880 60M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 131072 3887103 3756032 1.8G 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 2048 8191 6144 3M 5 Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p4 3887104 20664319 16777216 8G 83 Linux
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-5, default 5): 3
Partition 3 has been deleted.
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 131071 122880 60M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 131072 3887103 3756032 1.8G 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p4 3887104 20664319 16777216 8G 83 Linux
Write out the partition and… then run to enable it:
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
partprobe
Next, put a filesystem on this new partition. Using df to determine the type of filesystem currently in use; I recommend that you stick with it for this most basic of operations:
df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ext4 1815440 1799056 0 100% /
Run mkfs
/sbin/mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p4
Creating filesystem with 2097152 4k blocks and 524288 inodes
Filesystem UUID: e36a8f6c-a457-4531-b67d-bea4885a9583
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:... this might go on for a bit..
Once completed.. mount this where the logs and databases live. To do this the first thing that needs to happen is to check your current fstab:
cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
My first order of business was to mount the new filesystem to a temporary location (/var/log2) and then copy the contents of /var/log to that location, then delete everything in the log directory, and then unmount log2.
/var/log2
mount -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p4 /var/logs
cp -R log/* log2/.
cd log
rm -rf *
umount /dev/mmcblk0p4
Edit the fstab file to create a mount point for the new partition where the logs used to be written (added the orange line), and ran mount to verify that it will automount on a restart.
vi /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/mmcblk0p4 /var/log ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
mount -a
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 1815440 1768992 0 100% /
devtmpfs 469688 0 469688 0% /dev
tmpfs 474004 0 474004 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 474004 35972 438032 8% /run
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 474004 0 474004 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 61384 20400 40984 34% /boot
/dev/mmcblk0p4 8125880 333800 7356268 5% /var/log
Restart and verify
Restart the little box and verify that the mount was preserved.
init 6
Log back in, and run df to check the filesystem health. It should now has the the main filesystem has some breathing room again:
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NOTE TO DEVELOPERS: Make sure that your system has an acceptable clock source, i.e., a GPS
with sufficient signal or enable ntpd (internet connection required).
Everything here comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Type 'stratux-help' (as root) for a few debugging commands.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 1815440 1389856 332592 81% /
devtmpfs 469688 0 469688 0% /dev
tmpfs 474004 0 474004 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 474004 6336 467668 2% /run
tmpfs 5120 16 5104 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 474004 0 474004 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p4 8125880 329820 7360248 5% /var/log
/dev/mmcblk0p1 61384 20400 40984 34% /boot
At a later date I’ll work on expanding the main partition, but for now this should stabilize the machine and resolve the main disk consumption issue.