This is a note in my log, very handy if in future we need to resize the SDCard for use in any Raspberry Pi or other similar device.
In my case i have a Samsung SDHC 8GB class 6, so you need to use this adapted to yours:
Source for the cheat is: http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
It’s not a very difficult task, and if you have any Ubuntu at your computer you can do this easily.
You only have to determine wher’s the card mounted in your pc, and to do that, after inserting the card in the reader, at a terminal just issue the command “df” which will give you the filesystem mount points. From there you can see where is the card. In my netbook it was mounted at /dev/sdb so i will you that below.
- Use parted to examine the card
$ sudo parted /dev/sdb (parted) unit chs (parted) print Disk /dev/sdb: 121535,3,31 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 121536,4,32. Each cylinder is 65.5kB. Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Type File system Flags 1 16,0,0 1215,3,31 primary fat32 lba 2 1232,0,0 26671,3,31 primary ext4 3 26688,0,0 29743,3,31 primary linux-swap(v1)
- This shows how my SD card was formatted after writing the image. Notice that nothing uses the card from end of ‘cylinder’ 29743 to the card’s maximum at 121535.
- Partition 1 is the boot partition: we’ll leave that alone. Partition 2 is the root partition, which we’ll grow to fill most of the card. Partition 3 is the swap space, which needs to be moved to the end of the card. Note that on some other versions of linux (and some other versions of hardware) use /sde not /sdb.
- Move the swap partition (you’ll have to adjust the numbers so that the end of partition 3 is at the end cylinder/head/sector of the card)
- to calculate the number to use in the following command do:-
(Maximum - (Partition 3 End - Partition 3 Start) ) - 1 = Partition 3 New Start
so in this example(121535 - ( 29743 - 26688)) -1 = 118479
(parted) move 3 118479,0,0
- Now grow the root partition. This involves removing the partition, re-creating it, then using
resize2fs
to grow the filesystem to fill the partition. It won’t destroy any data.
(parted) rm 2 (parted) mkpart primary 1232,0,0 118478,3,31 (parted) quit
- Note that the starting address of the new partition is identical to its original value, and the ending address is immediately before the start of the swap partition.
- Now clean and resize the root partition. As before, some users may need to use /sde2 instead.
$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdb2
- (allow it to add lost-and-found)
$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sdb2
- Then put the card in the RPi and boot. You end up with a 7Gb partition to use.
pi@raspberrypi:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 94M 4.0K 94M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 168K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 94M 0 94M 0% /dev/shm rootfs 7.1G 1.3G 5.4G 20% / /dev/mmcblk0p1 75M 28M 48M 37% /boot
Other variant from this manual, and in some way more simple:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Resize-Partitons-Use-all-free-space/?ALLSTEPS