On 05/10/2020 11:21 am, druck wrote:
> 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

Sorry for my earlier advice, then. Never used NOOBs so didn't know it
had *many* partitions.



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