Moving RaspberryPi OS to a larger SD card

Asked Sep 04 '22 at 20:13

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I am using RaspberryPi OS Lite on my model 3B on a 8Gb SD card, but ran out of space. I tried copying the old SD card using

dd on the whole SD Card
dd on both partitions separately
balenaEtcher (clone drive)
various other tools for cloning drives

but no matter what I did, when I tried to boot I got a kernel panic because /sbin/init exists but couldn't be executed. I also tried changing fstab and cmdline.txt replacing the PARTUUID for the root partition with /dev/mmcblk0p2. My old SD still booted but it had no effect on my new SD Card. I could not find any guide that doesn't use these steps.

asked Sep 04 '22 at 20:13

user18795606

Your question has been asked, and answered – Seamus Sep 04 '22 at 20:39
It might be a solution that works, but in the end I used a different tool that is easier to use and does exactly what I need. (see answer) – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 21:18
This shell script solved my problem: https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 21:12
In that case you should add an answer to the previous existing question, but as per your (deleted) answer here, that should contain meaningful content beyond a pasted link. – goldilocks Sep 04 '22 at 21:41
I have a different problem than the author of the previous question. Copying to a larger SD card is different than copying to a smaller SD card and therefore deserves its own thread imo – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 22:11
The easiest solution is to use the SD Card Copier included in Raspberry Pi OS. – Milliways Sep 04 '22 at 23:18

Moving RaspberryPi OS to a larger SD card

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