On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:48:22 +0000, Mark J wrote:

> Now that UbuntuMate resizes the Root partition on installing, I cannot
> see how to resize /Boot after a fresh install; but with a fresh install
> any attempt at updating results in being told that there is insufficient
> room on /Boot. I have resized /Boot, but that involved deleting /Root,
> and resizing /Boot removes its contents, so back to square one...
>
> I obviously must be missing something as to why an install is expected
> to do what it does, but with me it repeatedly does it, on several 32GB
> sdcards
>
The last time I needed to resize the main Raspbian partition, I used
cfdisk to set up the partitions I wanted on a new SD card and dd to copy
partition contents from the old to the new SD card. IIRC this pretty much
just booted off the new card, but it was a fair time back, when wheezy
was the default Raspbian version.

gparted can resize partitions pretty much painlessly.

I've used CloneZilla (a bootable Linux DVD image with installed
partition manipulation tools) in the past to do this, though that was
Fedora on an Intel Core Duo chip. I don't think there is an ARM version.

You  may also get some ideas from this:

http://www.libelle-systems.c3487738.myzen.co.uk/free/linux/
easier_upgrades.html

I wrote it to describe how I used to do clean installs of Fedora
upgrades. That was back when Fedora used the yum package manager and had
no ability to upgrade from one version to the next. Since then Fedora
replaced yum with dnf and now can do in-situ version upgrades, but I've
retained the filesystem tweaks because it makes backups a bit easier to
do.


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