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  • Copying Pi 4 image to a larger SD card

    From NY@3:770/3 to All on Tue Sep 15 20:27:54 2020
    My Pi 4 came with a 16 GB card and I installed and configured the Pi (from NOOBS) using this card. But I notice that there's only about 1.5 GB free -
    83%.

    If I make an image of the card using Win32 Disk Imager and copy the image
    back to a 32 GB card, is there a way of making RaspiOS increase the size of
    the / partition to use the full space on the card?

    Or is there another, better disk imager tool to use for this?

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  • From NY@3:770/3 to Kallu Wiegand on Tue Sep 15 21:02:06 2020
    "Kallu Wiegand" <spam.only@roev.de> wrote in message news:hsckljFogncU1@mid.individual.net...
    Am 15.09.2020 um 21:27 schrieb NY:

    If I make an image of the card using Win32 Disk Imager and copy the image
    back to a 32 GB card, is there a way of making RaspiOS increase the size
    of the / partition to use the full space on the card?

    Or is there another, better disk imager tool to use for this?

    RaspiOS can do it. Open a console, type sudo raspi-config.
    choose 7 Advanced Options then A1 Expand Filesystem.
    You have to reboot.

    Thanks. I'll give it a try. Whatever happens I'll still have the 16 GB card
    so if I trash the 32 GB copy, I won't have lost the original.

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  • From Kallu Wiegand@3:770/3 to All on Tue Sep 15 21:57:24 2020
    Am 15.09.2020 um 21:27 schrieb NY:

    If I make an image of the card using Win32 Disk Imager and copy the
    image back to a 32 GB card, is there a way of making RaspiOS increase
    the size of the / partition to use the full space on the card?

    Or is there another, better disk imager tool to use for this?

    RaspiOS can do it. Open a console, type sudo raspi-config.
    choose 7 Advanced Options then A1 Expand Filesystem.
    You have to reboot.


    Greetings, Kallu
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    Have a nice day <

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  • From Chris Elvidge@3:770/3 to All on Tue Sep 15 21:53:27 2020
    On 15/09/2020 08:27 pm, NY wrote:
    My Pi 4 came with a 16 GB card and I installed and configured the Pi
    (from NOOBS) using this card. But I notice that there's only about 1.5
    GB free - 83%.

    If I make an image of the card using Win32 Disk Imager and copy the
    image back to a 32 GB card, is there a way of making RaspiOS increase
    the size of the / partition to use the full space on the card?

    Or is there another, better disk imager tool to use for this?

    Have you got a USB drive or thumbdrive or a SDcard USB adapter.
    You can rsync (use -avx) the root to a large thumbdrive or usb disk and
    use that to boot.
    Just have to change UUID= in /boot/cmdline.txt to the UUID of the USB
    drive and update (newdrive)/etc/fstab to reflect changes.

    If an SDcard format it with 2 partitions like your current card and
    rsync (-avx) the data to the new partitions. Then change UUID references
    as above.


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    Chris Elvidge, England

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