General discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.

why there is no easy way of managing (adapting!) the Partition sizes for the OS:

PINN is based off NOOBS, the premise of which was to install each OS with a minimal partition size and then divide up any remaining drive space equally amongst any resizeable partitions, thus filling up the whole of the drive.

http://pinn.mjh.nz basically seems to be a PINN "os_list_v3.json", because the only change it does to the command line is to add something like "alt_image_source=http://pinn.mjh.nz/os_list.json?raspios ... _rpi4=4000".

Matt experienced the same issue as you and solved it using his pinn.mjh.nz website. It seems to serve its purpose well.
Its modification of the command line causes a new dynamically generated partitions.json file to be served up to PINN for each OS, providing the new partition sizes for it.

But in the PINN documentation I have not found explications if I can simply define " = <partition size> " behind an OS for the raspberry to set the size?

No, I have not supported user-specification of partition sizes within PINN, as Matt's website has served this purpose quite well, although I do have intentions to provide this support, but I have struggled to find a multi-handle slider GUI control that I want to use for it (like on Matt's webpage).

Or via the option to select local OS images (previously downloaded)?

If you have downloaded OSes to a local USB drive, then you can modify the partitions.json files for each OS and resize each partition as you wish. You can even create your own custom OSes.

And the json files anyways correspond to the official OS repos, but why is there not an easy way to set the partitions sizes as needed (like above: add "= <partition size> " to a selected OS) ?

Although I want to add this feature, there are already 2 workarounds to achieve this, so it is not a high priority for me. I have more pressing things to add and fix first.

If you need any further support on modifying your partition sizes, please don't hesitate to ask.

Statistics: Posted by procount — Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:16 pm

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