Hello, I’ve signed up as I am struggling to get the right installation. How awesome that the new v1.0 UmbrelOS software has been released! I was very excited, however, I am unable to correctly use Umbrel as I don’t have enough storage space!
- Raspberry PI5
- 64GB SD Card
- Using an NVMe base from Pimoroni for M.2 Drive
- 2TB Samsung M.2 Drive
First I flash SD Card with Umbrel OS, then I format the M.2 Drive ‘Master Boot Record’ and ‘Ex-Fat’, then with a fresh install of SD Card and M.2 drive I set everything up and turn the PI device on. Everything thing works great, however, upon login I look at the logs and storage space and it decides to format my remaining space on the 64GB SD card and not use the 2TB hard drive!
Other things I have tried. Installing OS to M.2, using PI 5 wants SD Card and won’t continue any further. SSH into Umbrel, using commands such as ‘df’ and ‘fdisk’ which only shows the SD Card and not the M.2 drive.
I know the M.2 works because duration some test installations with Umbrel OS it actually formats my Ex-Fat hard drive and has some ‘PI-RUG’ files placed on the drive and partitions it. It does not use it as storage though! When logging in via host/ip/shh address on the logs and storage I can’t seem to see the drive. Maybe providing logs would help if anyone is interested.
The only thing I have yet to try is format as Ex4, or try installing via RPi OS with SD Card and use curl to get and setup Umbrel Server.
Unless I purchase a SSD and try that way, I’m not sure what to do as of now. I might try and curl using RPI OS see how I get on. I will leave it a few days and see if anyone kindly comments to get us going in the right direction as I read on the community forum that many users are struggling with formatting hard drives.
Oh you know if you plug a usb into usb3.0 blue port then it will format your usb! Shame it’s not the same for M.2 hard drive.
I don’t think this is a power issue either…
Can anyone suggest something?