Expand root partition after the installation

[nemeth9]

Hi,

I installed DietPi on a 4GB SD card, set up everything, working fine. I made an image from the installed system than copied to a 16GB SD card.
I know that the first step of the installation is that the installer expand the root file system to the maximum size of SD card but how can I do this after the migration? In raspbian config there is a setup of this but in dietpi config I haven't seen.
Is there any method to do this after the installation?

Thanks!

Regards,
nemeth9

[Fourdee]

Hi,

I installed DietPi on a 4GB SD card, set up everything, working fine. I made an image from the installed system than copied to a 16GB SD card.
I know that the first step of the installation is that the installer expand the root file system to the maximum size of SD card but how can I do this after the migration? In raspbian config there is a setup of this but in dietpi config I haven't seen.
Is there any method to do this after the installation?

Thanks!

Regards,
nemeth9

Hi Nemeth9,

As per the re-partition and resize ext4 code in DietPi: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/ ... ot#L44-L72.

You could essentially make the following scripts to complete the above:
Remember to chmod +x before executing them.

Resize Partition (run 1st):

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#!/bin/bash
#Stop Services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services stop

#Resize partition
cat << _EOF_ | fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
p
d
2
n
p
2
$(parted /dev/mmcblk0 -ms unit s p | grep ':ext4::;' | sed 's/:/ /g' | sed 's/s//g' | awk '{ print $2 }')

p
w

_EOF_

Reboot System (run 2nd):

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reboot

Resize ext4 filesystem (run 3rd):

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#!/bin/bash
# Stop Services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services stop

# Resize Filesystem to new partition size
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

# Start services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services start

[nemeth9]

Hi,

I installed DietPi on a 4GB SD card, set up everything, working fine. I made an image from the installed system than copied to a 16GB SD card.
I know that the first step of the installation is that the installer expand the root file system to the maximum size of SD card but how can I do this after the migration? In raspbian config there is a setup of this but in dietpi config I haven't seen.
Is there any method to do this after the installation?

Thanks!

Regards,
nemeth9

Hi Nemeth9,

As per the re-partition and resize ext4 code in DietPi: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/ ... ot#L44-L72.

You could essentially make the following scripts to complete the above:
Remember to chmod +x before executing them.

Resize Partition (run 1st):

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash
#Stop Services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services stop

#Resize partition
cat << _EOF_ | fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
p
d
2
n
p
2
$(parted /dev/mmcblk0 -ms unit s p | grep ':ext4::;' | sed 's/:/ /g' | sed 's/s//g' | awk '{ print $2 }')

p
w

_EOF_

Reboot System (run 2nd):

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reboot

Resize ext4 filesystem (run 3rd):

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#!/bin/bash
# Stop Services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services stop

# Resize Filesystem to new partition size
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

# Start services
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-services start

Thanks for your fast reply!
It's working!

Regards,
nemeth9

[rhkean@gmail.com]

I would like to see an option for MAX_ROOT_PARTITION in dietpi.txt that would allow for partition expansion... but not to the maximum size of the uSD card.

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#Resize partition
cat << _EOF_ | fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
p
d
2
n
p
2
$(parted /dev/mmcblk0 -ms unit s p | grep ':ext4::;' | sed 's/:/ /g' | sed 's/s//g' | awk '{ print $2 }')
                          <<<<-------------HERE
p
w

_EOF_

the blank line in the script (that I marked as "HERE") is essentially taking fdisk's default value for the ending sector (which is the last sector of the uSD). However, if you change that line to "+2048M" , then you get a 2GB partition.... even on a 4-64GB card. By adding a setting in the dietpi.txt file, it can be caught during that initial boot where the resizing occurs.

This would allow the admin to come back in and add additional partitions if desired.

or, just resize to 2GB during initial boot and allow for resize in the dietpi-config script to any arbitrary larger size.

[rhkean@gmail.com]

Much simpler, with no I/O redirect or sub-shells...

parted /dev/mmcblk0 -s resizepart 2 100%


(I haven't tested this yet with a "+500M" type of parameter)

[perlian]

i do that kind of things with gparted on another linux PC

works perfectly

[markfree]

After first boot my partition was expanded, but I didn't want that.
I wanted to shrink my partion again.
Is there an option to do so at DietPi?
Thanks

[Joulinar]

There is no build in option to do that. Using gparted on another PC (booting from Live USB Stick) would be best option