On 04/10/2020 14:50, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 04/10/2020 02:41 pm, A. Dumas wrote:
>> And then remember to never ever use Noobs again.
>
> I wouldn't assume noobs was the problem, it seems more likely it was the
> use of a 16GB card in the first place.
> However, I would agree that noobs is a solution looking for a problem.

NOOBS is OK to play with, being able to install lots of OS's and find
the one you like, but then you are only going to use one OS going
forward, you need to ditch it and just use a single OS install.

The problem with NOOBS is there are lots of partitions, more than the 4
which can be marked as physical, so it needs to use logical partitions.
When you copy it to a new card, instead of the OS being the last
physical partition which can easily be expanded by raspi-config to the
size of a new card, its trapped within a logical partition and my have
others after it.

You don't have to start again from scratch, it is possible to extract
just your OS's boot partition and root partition, but its not straight
forward, and if you haven't messed with partition tables before, it can
be a bit daunting.

I'll only give a brief outline of what to do, as without I don't NOOBS
card to refer to, and it was a long time since I had to do it.

1) Backup up the NOOBs card, and do this on the copy on the larger card
2) Boot in to the OS you want to use
3) Use df and note the partition numbers of /boot and / (root)
4) Put the card a different Linux machine and unmount all partitions
5) Using parted note the start and end of the two partitions above
6) You will have to delete all partitions on the card to get rid
    of the logical partitions
7) Recreate the partitions noted as physical partitions
8) Using gParted move boot to start 4M in to the card, with size 256M
    and root after boot taking up the rest of the card

---druck

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