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RetroPie / RetroPie-Setup

Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores
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File System 'Expanded' automatically #1136

Closed robertybob closed 8 years ago

robertybob commented 8 years ago

Unless there's a really good reason I'm missing, I can't see why users should have to do this themselves when setting up RetroPie for the first time. Some people forget and then wonder why there's no room for ROMs. This would eliminate that problem (?).

Is there a way of the file system being expanded automatically, the very first time a user boots up a fresh copy of RetroPie?

biscuits99 commented 8 years ago

I guess there is a way to do it automatically as Recalbox does it, Although what if someone wants to get RetroPie running, make a range of config changes then back up the image without having to shrink it again? Or is that an edge case?

robertybob commented 8 years ago

Hmm yeah I didn't think about that situation, although I would like to imagine it's only a small number of users doing that. I just thought it's a small way to make RetroPie even more newbie friendly. What are your thoughts @joolswills @herbfargus ?

joolswills commented 8 years ago

My thoughts are that there are more important things to do currently, and I don't like forcing it really (what if they wanted to make another partition on the SD card once they boot ?) - I also think that doing things like repartitioning/growing filesystems should be things that are done with the users knowledge/confirmation amnd Raspbian doesn't do it automatically either.

The "some people forget" thing doesn't sound like a good reason to me. Don't forget ? :) I think it's good that users are encouraged to read the documentation too.

joolswills commented 8 years ago

Short answer. I don't want to change it.