#[SOLVED]Can't mkinitcpio -P

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dusty minnow
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My boot partition is apparently too small and I am having trouble with resizing it

dark patio
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have you installed fatresize?

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it should function like resize2fs

dusty minnow
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I did but I can't seem to get it to resize the partition

dark patio
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post the output

dusty minnow
dark patio
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well that's unexpected

dusty minnow
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Don't tell me I gotta do everything all over again

dark patio
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what happens if you don't specify a size

dusty minnow
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It says illegal new volume size

dark patio
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a bug report from 2020 suggests that the tool is incapable of resizing a partition filesystem that small

dusty minnow
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Wtf

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Lol

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Is there a minimum written somewhere?

dark patio
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256, according to this bug report; let me dig a little bit

dusty minnow
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But my partition is double that size

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😭

dark patio
dusty minnow
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Okay, well how do I back up the data?

dark patio
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copying the files out to a folder on your root partition would do

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you have bootable media incase something goes terribly wrong?

dusty minnow
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Okay how do I select the whole thing and copy it somewhere else?

dark patio
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just a regular cp -r /boot <target>

dusty minnow
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When I do mkfs.fat it says command not found

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What pack do I need to do that?

dusty minnow
dark patio
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dosfstools - in the future if you're stuck on missing commands you can typically find what package they're in using the wiki search, or package search

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not that I mind, but sometimes it'll be faster to help yourself than to wait for someone on discord

dusty minnow
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Absolutely I am still fairly new but yeah I try to use the wiki when I can

dark patio
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takes practice.

dusty minnow
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It's just late and I can't really reason straigjt

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I just have one last question, I copied the boot partition content in my root, now to copy it back I have to use the same command as before?

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Or actually I should use move?

dark patio
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copy it, if it works then delete the backup on root

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you know, safety

dusty minnow
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So I mount the partition and then do cp -r /home/boot /boot?

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Damn they would have the same name

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That's not good is it?

dark patio
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not a problem just make sure it doesn't end up as /boot/boot

dusty minnow
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Okay how can I avoid that? How do I copy only the files in it?

dark patio
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glob it; cp -r /home/boot/* /boot

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then check the folder to make sure it's right

dusty minnow
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Looks right to me yeah

dark patio
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OK run your mkinit

dusty minnow
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They are not writeable now

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I gotta chmod?

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Or sudo

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?

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It workeddddd

dark patio
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🎉

dusty minnow
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Ty so much

dark patio
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remember to mark the thread as solved.