[Freedombox-discuss] RPi resize SDcard storage

[A. F. Cano]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 06:42:16PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sunil Mohan Adapa]
> > However, due to a bug in parted it was not working[1].  I have
> > submitted patches to fix this and a workaround in Plinth[2].  Further,
> > to improve the user experience, I have raised two bugs (good for
> > beginners to pickup) to resize the disk during first boot[3] and to
> > show a disabled option even when the option is not applicable[4].
> 
> Very good.  it is a lot better to show this option anyway, but "grayed
> out", to make sure people get familiar with its existance when they
> visit the Disk section.
> 
> Also, it would make more sense to me if the snapshot section was merged
> with the disk section, or at least linked to from the disk section.  I
> discovered it by chance a few days ago when trying to figure out why my
> freedombox was out of space.  I checked the 'Disk' section first, but
> there were no explanation there.
> 
> It would also be very useful if the snapshot section list how much space
> the individual snapshots use, to figure out what to delete when running

Good idea.

> out of space.  While trying to track down the lost space, I came across
> <URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agronick/btrfs-size/master/btrfs-size.sh >
> which does this.  Perhaps it can inspire improvement for the snapshot page?

In most pages there is a check box to enable/disable the specific
feature/app.  It would be really really good to have such a check box in
the snapshots page.  I find myself having to regularly delete individual
snapshots to make space, especially since the expand feature doesn't
work.  At least until that feature works, I've wanted to suspend the
snapshot generation but there seems to be no way to do that from the
plinth interface.

Augustine