I will attempt to do a clean install of OMV on the SSD
If you are going to do a new installation you have another safer option. Do the Debian 11 installation and during the installation you can create the partitions you need. Then install OMV with the script. You avoid all the gparted hassle.
Even if you want to restore an OMV backup to the installed debian partition you can do that too and it will still work, I have done it before with fsarchiver and it works.
Whoops, I forgot this is a raspberry, I'm not sure if what I just said can be done on a raspberry.
Run resizefs on the running Pi system
I actually wanted to create a new partition to keep my docker data separate from rootfs.
TLDR, only read that you wanted to increase the size of the partition.
If you want to make a new partition on the rest of the space:
fdisk /dev/sdX where X is the letter that is assigned to the SSD.
p will "print" the details of the partiton table and what is done
Take note of the END SECTOR of partition 2
n will make a new partition and it should show the END SECTOR+1 of partition 2.
See this example (your will show different)(imagine that it was your 32Gb SD card and now this is the SSD)
pi@panela:~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 29.12 GiB, 31268536320 bytes, 61071360 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa5ad2359
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 8192 532479 524288 256M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 532480 61071359 60538880 28.9G 83 LinuxWhen using n, the first sector for the new partition had to be 61071359+1 = 61071360
Then just use accept the numbers that show automatic.
If you're 100% sure you made the correct procedure:
w will write the partition table with the rest of the drive on a new partition.
q to exit the fdisk
Run sync on the CLI and you should see a new partition that you can create a FS on OMV GUI.
Or you can also do it on the CLI.
I can guide you, if you want.
Just post the output of:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX replace X with your drive letter
OK so I created the new partition (90gb) and looks fine using fdisk
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 8192 532479 524288 256M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 532480 62333951 61801472 29.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 62333952 250880802 188546851 89.9G 83 Linuxbut it was not visible to format in the OMV GUI. Not sure why this is the case. I did sync and restarted the pi but no luck
So I used mkfs to format it at the cli
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3After this it is available to mount in OMV but this is what I see in OMV after mounting it. After a reboot, it shows as unmounted and nothing is written to /etc/fstab
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