Oddities with the amount of available space on BPI-R64 (BananaPi)

Hello everyone. I came across the fact that openwrt 23.05 on Banani r64 uses only 100Mb of the available 8GB. I built an image with Root filesystem partition size (in MiB) = 256, uploaded to the SD card, started from it for the test.
When starting from SD, the required amount of space is displayed (~200Mb), but when I record the system to eMMC via uboot Install bootloader, recovery and production to eMMC, and boot from eMMC I get < 100Mb again. Why is that?

using the same "256mb" image ?

Yes. From same SD card. I use Install bootloader, recovery and production to eMMC

An upgrade intentionally does not modify the partition table, in case you have extra partitions. A full install will write a new partition table.

Making a data partition in the extra space is recommended versus changing the size of the root partition.

I tried Remove all data in the uboot menu and then Install bootloader, recovery and production to eMMC. It worked :wink:

Yes, but I began to miss it for packages

Can I create a partition for myself via fdisk and it will stay forever?

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/extroot_configuration

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