January 18, 20251 yr Hello I would like to know if it is possible to have 2 partions on the emmc. Indeed My emmc have 256go for only the os armbian with OMV (2.5go only used). I would like to have for example a boot partition with size of 50go and an other partition for my data (200go). However when I use armbian-config the full emmc is formated. If a solution exist could you please share with me the solution. Thanks in advance for your support.
January 18, 20251 yr I almost never use armbian-config, so don't know if it has options to limit partitions sizes, I think there are, but you will have to look in the script how things are done. But you can boot from SD-card with another independent Armbian installation and from there run a partitions program on the eMMC. Gparted I would say, it should allow you to shrink/resize existing partition and filesystem. An add an extra 1 or more. I usually use gdisk or fdisk/sfdisk via serial console (CLI) and Btrfs as filesystem (not Ext4), so cannot really tell how parted works, but what you want is possible, up to 128 partitions if you want. Edited January 18, 20251 yr by eselarm
April 23Apr 23 It is. Before I managed to rebuild u-boot with ZFS support, I had to boot off of EMMC. I shrunk first partition with kernel, initrd etc, and then made another one with actual FS. Temporary solution for me back then. But gave me time to rebuild everything and enable native ZFS boot. Since then, I use EMMC only as a ZFS volume (another one in the mirror is NVME drive). never used armbian-config though - I am old-schooler, so I had to build whole stack myself to get what I wanted.
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