# Help - Partition option not showing in Arduino IDE **URL:** \ **Category:** Storage\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/help-partition-option-not-showing-in-arduino-ide/670001 "2020-08-13T23:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srlimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@srlimon](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/srlimon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/help-partition-option-not-showing-in-arduino-ide/670001/1 "2020-08-13T23:20:17Z")
I need bigger partition for my project, was refering to [Help!!! Partition Scheme Tools - Storage - Arduino Forum](https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=640945.0) But my Arduino IDE don't show this option. Tried to look for different settings etc without luck. Anyone can show me some light ? Thanks ![Annotation 2020-08-14 071708.png](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/original/4X/b/3/0/b30ecb2ab954254c20588a6eefb3537519958d91.png) ---
**Author:** ![pert](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/pert/32/217111_2.png) [@pert](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/pert)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/help-partition-option-not-showing-in-arduino-ide/670001/2 "2020-08-13T23:38:47Z")
That **Tools \> Partition Scheme** menu is a custom board option, meaning it is defined on a per-board basis. For some reason, certain of the ESP32 boards have this custom board option, but not all of them. So if you were to select something like **Tools \> Board \> Robot Zero One** , you would then see that menu appear. At a glance, it seems like the ESP32 boards platform maintainers might be taking the approach that contributors to the project have to add this option in for each individual board, so it's just a matter of whether some member of the community wanted that feature badly enough to do the work and submit a pull request: [https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+partition+is%3Aclosed](https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+partition+is%3Aclosed) ---
**Author:** ![darkgreenarduino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@darkgreenarduino](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/darkgreenarduino)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/help-partition-option-not-showing-in-arduino-ide/670001/3 "2020-08-14T03:59:50Z")
The ESP32 Dev Module in the Board Manager has that option, so maybe you could use that to program the ESP32 instead, but i am not too sure if it supports your board as the firmware / hardware might be different ---
**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/arduino/user_avatar/forum.arduino.cc/system/32/1140315_2.png) [@system](https://forum.arduino.cc/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/help-partition-option-not-showing-in-arduino-ide/670001/4 "2021-05-06T16:35:52Z")