# Expand /dev/root storage space on VOXL2 for custom ROS package?

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3112/expand-dev-root-storage-space-on-voxl2-for-custom-ros-package
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2024-02-12 19:47:10 UTC by nickyblanch
Replies: 2 · Views: 795

## nickyblanch · 2024-02-12 19:47:10 UTC

Hi all,

I'm trying to run a custom ROS package onboard my Seeker drone (VOXL2). The custom ROS package has a lot of Python dependencies - I'd estimate it could be up to 10GB including everything in total, based on when I installed the dependencies on my Ubuntu machine.

However, there is not enough free space in the /dev/root filesystem to handle the Python dependencies and the custom ROS node.

![5ba5b7e9-858b-429e-8b03-5fee98f21d55-image.png](https://forum.modalai.com/assets/uploads/files/1707766726443-5ba5b7e9-858b-429e-8b03-5fee98f21d55-image.png) 

Could there by some way that I can re-allocate space from something else (say, /dev/sda9) for /dev/root?

For reference, the custom ROS package that I'm trying to install is a modified version of the [yolov7-ros](https://github.com/lukazso/yolov7-ros/tree/master) package.

[I'm also looking into the [voxl-tflite-server](https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-tflite-server/#custom-models) for a custom TFLite model, but the documentation for voxl-tflite-server makes me think it would be difficult to get my custom model to be compatible]

Any suggestions are appreciated!
-Nick B

## Reply by Moderator (ModalAI staff) · 2024-02-13 03:23:15 UTC

@nickyblanch Seeker uses VOXL 1, not VOXL 2. You should use the /data/ partition which should have around 16GB

## Reply by nickyblanch · 2024-02-13 21:51:09 UTC (in reply to Moderator)

@Moderator I see, thank you for the clarification - I think I was confused because I saw the HW info returned Flight Core V2.

I will try to run everything from /data/ , but I was initially worried about path errors because the other ROS packages and Python dependencies appeared to be installed in root. Will update here.