Expand SD Card on raspberry pi

Place old SD card into a Laptop with Card reader. Umount the Partitions:

umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
umount /dev/mmcblk0p2

Copy the hole Disk to a local file. This takes some time

dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/home/oliver/raspberry_backup.img bs=1M

Place the new larger SD Card into the Laptop. Umount the Partitions of new SD Card

umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

Copy the created Image to the new larer SD Card. This takes some time

dd if=/home/oliver/raspberry_backup.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M

Place new SD Card into the raspberry pi. Check if the image boots up. then Start raspi-confi and choose expand disk in the menu.

sudo raspi-config

check if the new partion has the larger size

df -h

Source:

• movin pi to larger sdcard