On 28/02/2019 08:34, David Taylor wrote:
> I want to copy an existing working SD card to a newer, larger one.
>
> Background: Following the recent discussions on SD card reliability, and
> having had a couple of card failures on other Raspberry Pi systems, I
> have now purchased a 32 GB card for my Raspberry Shake:
>
>    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01BDKTQY6/
>
> Currently the 'Shake has an 8 GB card so how would I go about
> transferring the existing 8 GB card to the new 32 GB one?
>
> I don't have access to a Linux systems with multiple SD card slots.
>
> On Windows I would use Paragon's Hard Disk manager to transfer from one
> HD to another and it would keep all the partitions intact but rescaled
> to fit the new HD capacity.  I had considered using a Windows disk
> imager program to copy the 8 GB card to a .IMG file and then writing
> that image to the 32 GB card, but I don't know whether Linux would even
> recognise the card, or be able to use its greater capacity.
>
> If I could add a couple of SD card readers to a (different) Raspberry
> Pi, is there a Linux command or program which do the equivalent of
> Paragon's "copy disk and expand partitions"?  I'm not familiar enough
> with Linux to know how to do this.
>
As I understand it, if uyou - say - install a Raspian image on the new
card, then extend the secoind partion , then copy the cintenst of yoir
existing second partition to that, it should work.

Why not use a live CD to get a linux PC env?

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