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echo: rberrypi
to: DRUCK
from: MM0FMF
date: 2019-03-04 20:20:00
subject: Re: Copying a working SD

On 03/03/2019 23:34, druck wrote:
> 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
>

Who is going to post the tunefs(8) joke?

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