[SOLVED] Not possible to expand SD card

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(2nd Aug, 2018 11:30 PM)tookdrums Wrote:  I am newcomer on the forum here, but a long time user of xbian.

I'm piggy backing on this thread as I cannot create a new one yet.

I'm looking for the best way to downsize the root partition on the sd card.
I need to be able to clone this 32GB (with my vpn, trnasmission with kill-switch,sickrage,...etc) to a 8gb card.
I also don't know if the automatic expansion is happening automatically only at the first boot and if not how to prevent it from resizing again.

The easiest way to shrink your existing installation is to make an image backup.

Start xbian-config, and run menu point 6 (xbian copier), and select file:/the-position-you-want/the-image-file-you.want as destination. This image can be flashed to your 8GB card and boot from that card

Automatic resize is done always, it is part of the init procedure which resides in the initramfs part. You can disable this behavior by adding the noresizesd parameter to the kernel command line, see here

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