Installation option "here" creates too small partition

[wehkah]

Hello,

when I choose to install Cadmium "here", the install script creates a 4GB partition on the USB memory, which later breaks installation because of "no space left on device".

[nhobson99]

For anyone else who runs into this issue, it's possible to do the resize manually. Cadmium's main partition uses f2fs (flash-friendly file system), which requires not only resizing the partition, but also updating the file system to match. It's been a while since I've done this, but in my bash history I have:

sudo growpart /dev/sda 3
sudo resize.f2fs /dev/sda3

Note that sda3 may be different on your device. Use lsblk/df to figure out which file system you want to resize, as resizing the wrong one could make you have a bad time. You also have to do this with another system, as you can't resize an f2fs file system that is currently mounted (which is probably why it's not included in the installer if I had to guess).

[wehkah]

Thanks for the tip. But will the installation use an existing partition when started, or will it repartition the USB drive and run into that problem again?