It comes in two versions, one with 128 MiB NAND and one with 64 GiB eMMC. In order to make the firmware common between the two versions, the contributor also set the same partition size for the eMMC version as the NAND version: 104 MiB.
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 120832000 sectors, 57.6 GiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 5452574F-2211-4433-5566-778899AABB00
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 120831966
Partitions will be aligned on 1-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1799136 sectors (878.5 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 8192 9215 512.0 KiB 8300 ubootenv
2 9216 13311 2.0 MiB 8300 factory
3 13312 21503 4.0 MiB EF00 fip
4 24576 90111 32.0 MiB EF00 recovery
5 131072 344063 104.0 MiB FFFF production
6 2097153 4194303 1024.0 MiB 8300 swap
7 4194304 120829951 55.6 GiB 8300 data
128 34 8191 4.0 MiB EF02
(The swap and data partitions were created by myself)
The problem is: 104 MiB is too small, which makes it impossible to install more packages even if the eMMC version has a lot of unused space.
I remember that the rootfs size of OpenWrt seems to be determined at build time? This means that I cannot resize the production partition to use more space and must build the image myself. Then I can't use the default Attended Sysupgrade service either, right?
I recently performed this type operation on my BPI-R3.
I will have to find the procedure I used and update.
Though, I don't think it will exactly match to your device?
Your device will reboot, possibly twice, and once that is done, your root partition and filesystem will be expanded to the max. Now you can install Attended Sysupgrade, and when you run it, your root partition and root filesystem will be resized again as a part of the upgrade.
Alternatively, you could use Firmware Selector to make your own firmware capable of expanding the root partition and root filesystem on first run:
Just add the packages you need (be sure to include parted, losetup, and resize2fs) and copy and paste the resize script from the wiki into the Script to run on the first boot input. Then launch the build and, once it's complete, download your firmware...
I tried to add Samba in the 'installed packages but the 'how to' looks like Samba needs to be installed incrementally?. Because I'd just add it to the list in 'installed packages and not need to expand the partition.
I'm also trying to expand the partition (because samba is a large package with lots of dependences) but that cli you just spelled out in indecipherable to me as I see no parameters. Do those commands just resize the appropriate partitions without specifying the partitions' sizes?
Currently, Attended Sysupgrade doesn't preserve uci-defaults scripts (even those in the current firmware image itself), - that means there will be no /etc/uci-defaults/70-rootpt-resize script after upgrade so no more resizes?
