Installing Mobian --> "Resizing file system" forever

[jonnicholson]

100% certain the image written to the card is corrupt. Try fsck both partitions after writing and before you boot from the card.

Finally got around to checking this. Thanks, you were 100% correct. fsck passed Partition 1 fine and on partition 2 just printed the one line with the version number and exited without a return code (even in verbose mode).

I guess I will try again some time with a different image...

Even after correctly transferring the image to the SD card and checking both partitions with fsck, then doing "resizepart 2 100%" in parted, the resize.f2fs of partition 2 would fail with an out of space error. The workaround was to extend and resize in three steps: 50%, 90% and 100%: each time extend in parted then resize with resize.f2fs.