Memory SplitNOTE: Earlier versions of RetroPie included a default EmulationStation theme with large image files, that would eventually cause a 'white screen' when too many systems were active. This 'white screen' bug has been fixed as of RetroPie 4.2, and since emulation itself uses very little video memory: there is no benefit to raising the video memory split.Also note that in order to ensure sensible memory splits across Pi models, the RetroPie Pi image uses the gpumem256, gpumem512 and gpumem1024 overrides, which apply to Pis with that amount of memory (for example, the Pi 2 has 1024MB memory, so will use the gpumem1024 setting). These settings override the gpumem setting that is described below, so if you still want to adjust the memory split, you will have to manually edit /boot/config.txt and adjust the relevant value, or delete the lines entirely.Note: If you don't use the RetroPie provided image for Raspberry Pi and you install using the, you have to adjust the memory split settings manually before installation to reserve at enough video memory for running Emulationstation without problems. The default values used by the RetroPie image are: gpumem256=128gpumem512=256gpumem1024=256A complex display of the GPU memory usage can be viewed with: sudo vcdbg relocSince the raspberry pi is a SoC the CPU and GPU share the same amount of RAM. The following option allows you to choose how much RAM you allocate to the GPU compared to the CPU.You can choose a split from 16/32/64/128/256 (the settings may be different depending on the version of pi you have).
How long does expanding the file system take for most people? I'm doing this for the first time: I cloned my 32gb card onto a 128gb card (that 128gb card has been PERFECT for multiple installs before -it was running perfect earlier today- so the card is definitely good), and ran the raspi-config to expand, and rebooted.it's been running lines of code on the screen for a GOOD half hour+ now.just want to make sure that's normal. Saying things like 'inode 1065439 us in use, but has dtime set. Yes', and 'Inode 1065440 has a extra size (1) which is invalid Fix?
Yes', and 'Inode 1065441, isize is 04857, should be 0, Fix? (and these are scrolling across so fast I had to take a picture of the screen just to be able to read it)If this isn't normal, I'll pull the 128gb card and use ApplePi-Baker on it again to restore from my backup of the 32gb card (which hopefully works as I have a good 10+ hours into that setup.most from the hours it takes to install the packages I use from source, and the friggin slow scraper.).EDIT.I'm at 3.5 hours now.I pulled the plug and am starting over.no way this should take that long. Said in:Sounds like you have filesystem corruption there - you should not get error like that.
Probably badly clones/written image (unless the card has developed problems).My thoughts too. Totally stinks. This is why I always used BerryBoot for super-easy backups (until you told me the BerryBoot kernels were outdated;) I may try to find some other program than ApplePi-Baker program on my mac and see if that does it correctly (i know the built-in Disk Utility can make images - but I've never tried it on an SD card).and I'm afraid I don't have a 2nd 128gb card that the new RetroPie install is now on to test it - and don't want to take the chance of formatting my one card and trying to restore that backup in case it's corrupted again. RetroPie will give you an LBS error trying to resize on boot with retropie 4.4 with berryboot.
It will also not allow you to resize it from retropie raspi-config nor while you have retropie booted and using the command line.If you are using berryboot with retropie you will need to reboot the pie and do this from berryboots terminal via the berry boot menu with ctrl + alt + F2. I was able to resize an image I took of a 16G SD card written to a 64G card and resize it to expand all available space to the SD.LinksI cannot take credit for this, but will link what helped me after I spent a few hours trying to figure it out.
RetroPie – Expanding storage on your SD card. September 2, 2019 September 2, 2019 by CrackedConsole Most RetroPie images you download wont take advantage of all the free space on your SD card, so how do you expand the partition to utilize the remaining space? Jan 20, 2019 Memory Split. Also note that in order to ensure sensible memory splits across Pi models, RetroPie utilises the gpumem256, gpumem512 and gpumem1024 overrides, which apply to Pis with that amount of memory (for example, the Pi 2 has 1024MB memory, so will use the gpumem1024 setting). This setting overrides the gpumem setting.