# \#fwup

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## [FWUP && VIM3 target - corrupting the written image](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/fwup-vim3-target-corrupting-the-written-image/73329)

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**Author:** [@swishy](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/swishy)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/fwup-vim3-target-corrupting-the-written-image/73329 "2025-11-18T06:44:48Z")

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Kia ora All, I’m currently porting nerves to the Khadas VIM3 board and have got to the point its booting fine however fwup appears to be corrupting the written image - I have tested both fwup 1.13.2 and fwup 1.14.0 - K…

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## [Fwup now installable via asdf and mise](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/fwup-now-installable-via-asdf-and-mise/66938)

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**Author:** [@fhunleth](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/fhunleth)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 20, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/fwup-now-installable-via-asdf-and-mise/66938 "2024-12-20T14:17:56Z")

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Nerves’ firmware package and update tool, fwup, can now be installed with asdf and mise-en-place. This mostly benefits Ubuntu and Fedora Nerves users who currently have to manually install from source. If you’re using Ma…

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## [Disk size does not match expected size on device](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/disk-size-does-not-match-expected-size-on-device/67608)

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**Author:** [@jjcarstens](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/jjcarstens)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/disk-size-does-not-match-expected-size-on-device/67608 "2024-11-20T17:01:20Z")

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Problem I recently ran into a situation where a production device was running out of disk space for a data intensive task. When inspecting, I noticed that the overall writeable space (/root) was much smaller than expecte…

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## [Allow to specify image size when using mix firmware.image](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/allow-to-specify-image-size-when-using-mix-firmware-image/66317)

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**Author:** [@steffend](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/steffend)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/allow-to-specify-image-size-when-using-mix-firmware-image/66317 "2024-10-02T15:07:12Z")

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Hey there! This is more of a feature requests to the people knowing the internals of fwup. I’m currently testing some nerves systems in QEMU, therefore I’m using mix firmware.image to write a raw disk image. The problem…

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## [How to go from MBR to GPT in fwup](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/how-to-go-from-mbr-to-gpt-in-fwup/60874)

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**Author:** [@joserp93](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/joserp93)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 10, 2024, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/how-to-go-from-mbr-to-gpt-in-fwup/60874 "2024-01-10T08:09:24Z")

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I have little experience using GPT. How would I know if this migration is correct? Here is the file with MBR and the other with GPT. Thanks for your help in advance. I needed to create one more partition and MBR cannot …

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## [Errors attempting SSH or firmware upload on OTP \>= 23.2](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/errors-attempting-ssh-or-firmware-upload-on-otp-23-2/36885)

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**Author:** [@jjcarstens](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/jjcarstens)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 15, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/errors-attempting-ssh-or-firmware-upload-on-otp-23-2/36885 "2021-01-15T19:25:23Z")

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If you are using a system with nerves\_system\_br \>= 1.14.0, you might noticing errors when trying to ssh such as: $ ssh nerves.local PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 ... iex(1)\> or unable to upload new firmwar…
