Problem shrinking Raspi-Endeavouros SDCard. about pi-safe HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi Richard,

One more thing...

If you need to test, these are the best instructions, the one I've followed:

https://raspberrytips.com/endeavouros-installation/

Thanks once more,

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Step 1 did not get a good image of the SD card. Either one of the two suggestions below may fix the problem.

1. Try using 1.2.5.m. (current beta). It may have an improvement you need.

2. In the Settings file, set "skip_freespace=off". There could be a bug in that new feature.

3. If neither of those work, your media (SD card) may be corrupted.

Richard

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You can also try setting "shrink_fs=off" so it does not even try to shrink the file system.

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Hi Richard,

Ok, I followed your instructions, made many tests and the conclusion is that there was a temporary corruption in SDCard.

Very good idea to skip non allocated space.

Thanks for your attention.

Keep safe.

Cury

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Hello Cury,
I am glad it worked. I wonder if it was the SDCard, or a bug in PiSafe.

The "skip_freespace" feature is to allow backing up of a very large media (SDCard) that has very little data on it. In such a situation, you can use a different tool (such as gparted), to shrink the partitions and leave a bunch of freespace at the end of the media. Then PiSafe will not copy that freespace, thus reducing the time and space required for creating the image. In your situation, there is very little freespace at the end, and this feature is not valuable. It is possible that PiSafe is mis-calculating the freespace in some situations and creating a corrupted .img file.

Because of your feedback, I will default this feature to OFF for safety
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Thanks for the feedback.
Peace,
Richard

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Hi Richard,
I think it was a temporary corruption in SDCard. I made a new build in a brand new 16 Gb SDCard and pisafe worked like a charm.

In the old 32 Gb I wrote a RPIOS and pisafe worked like a charm. Well RPIOS is very small and maybe it didn't get the corruption, that's why I sad it was a temporary corruption in SDCard.

I think "skip_freespace=on" is not the problem.

Keep on doing great tools.

Stay safe,

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