On Jo, 30 sep 21, 16:26:18, Myron wrote: > > I know. It's not advisable to resize a live root partition. Maybe create a > live boot Linux CD or USB with Gparted on it and do it that way? It would > be a lot simpler if I can just resize the file system, which seems to be > the simple part using resize2fs. It's the shrinking the partition bit I'm > not sure about.
Using *another* system running a live Linux with GParted is probably the easiest way, provided you have a supported SD card reader with at least one slot: 1. Boot another computer with a live distro that has GParted on it. 2. Optional: if you have enough storage I would strongly suggest you take an image of the bigger SD card as backup in case something goes wrong. 3. Use GParted to resize the partition as needed. 3b. In case you can't connect both SD cards at the same time take another image of the bigger SD card. 4. Use `dd` or similar to clone the bigger SD card or the image taken in step 3b. to the smaller card. 5. Open the smaller SD card in GParted and grow the partition to the size available. Disclaimer: steps above are untested. `dd` might error out when copying the image to the smaller SD card (out of space), but this is expected. As long as you resized the partition properly all data should be there. If in doubt just resize the partition to be definitely smaller than the small SD card (by a GB or so). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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