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echo: rberrypi
to: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
from: DRUCK
date: 2019-03-03 23:34:00
subject: Re: Copying a working SD

On 02/03/2019 10:49, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 01/03/2019 19:40, druck wrote:
>> On 01/03/2019 04:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 28/02/2019 23:13, Uwe K. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Copy the old little image to the new bigger SD, boot with your RasPi,
>>>> start raspi-config and use the command Advancde Options - Expand
>>>> Filesystem, reboot and all is done.
>>>>
>>> If such a utility exists, yes, that is simplest.
>>
>> raspi-config calls resize2fs, which is available on all Linux distros.
>>
>> ---druck
>>
> Then its simples.
>
> dd old car to new card, bott new and resize.
>
> Only disadvnatage is the part-UUID are the same on both cards which
> might be 'intersting' if both are plugged into one machine.

There's a command for that too:-

tune2fs -U $(uuidgen) /dev/sdX

Where sdX is the the device you want to change.

---druck

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