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--- copy_larger_sd_card_to_smaller_sd_card [2017/01/28 22:11] – [The Raspberry Pi] walkeradmin
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+After initially thinking this would be a really simple task, I soon learned that no, it is not. And the worst part of it is, if you have for example a 16GB SD card, that you want to copy to another 1GB SD card, the destination card might be slightly smaller, and it will fail. This is very frustrating. If you are in this position, then read on.
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-From the menu, select No1.
+From the menu, select No1. Expand Filesystem.
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+Once completed (takes just a few seconds) Select Finish and let the Raspberry Pi reboot.
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+Now log back in and re-run the df -h command.
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+    df -h
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-df -h
 Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/root       7.2G  1.1G  5.9G  15% /
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 tmpfs           218M     0  218M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
 /dev/mmcblk0p1   63M   21M   43M  34% /boot
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+Now it can be see that the partition (/dev/root) is 7.2GB in size, with 5.9Gb free.
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+That's it, all done.
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+As a footnote, I would copy the rpi_all.img to your PC, and the you can use this to create new SD Cards using Win32 diskimager as it's a lot less hassle. But only do this once you have proved the process works.
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