Moving from 4gb to 16gb SD with NOOBS

[kenfager]

Hello RPi community,

I installed NOOBS on the 4gb SD card that came with my RPi kit. I have been lurking the internet and RPi forums on how to configure Raspbian. So far I have been able to configure VNC, install NOIP, get a rudimentary web server running, and do some other customizations. I've poured quite a bit of time into this, but am running out of storage space for additional packages.

I made a backup image of the 4gb card with dd and put it onto the 16gb one. When I try to expand the file system with raspi-config I am thwarted with a message stating that NOOBS has already allocated the additional space. Yet there is still only about 150mb of usable storage space, despite the extra space afforded by the 16gb card.

I tried using GParted, but that shows a single unallocated block of ~14.5gb of space. Something about that did not seem right so I tried these instruction on eLinux. http://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Part ... spberry_Pi

After rebooting I could only get to the NOOBS restoration partition.

Any recommendations on what to do next will be greatly appreciated.

[drgeoff]

I haven't used NOOBS at all so this is just an off-the-cuff suggestion. Did you format the 16 Gbyte card with the formatter tool before using 'dd' to write the backup? If not, try that and 'dd' the backup again.

[DeeJay]

Any recommendations on what to do next will be greatly appreciated.

1. Read this... https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/issues/43

2. Then you'll probably need to start afresh with your 16G card



[The NOOBS team have this under active development, but I am guessing that any fix will not be retrospective to already installed systems, only to new installations after the fix is released?]

[kenfager]

Did you format the 16 Gbyte card with the formatter tool before using 'dd' to write the backup?

No. The SD card came out of box with a standard FAT partition. I'll give the formatter tool another go later tonight.

[kenfager]

[The NOOBS team have this under active development, but I am guessing that any fix will not be retrospective to already installed systems, only to new installations after the fix is released?]

Yeah, it looks like NOOBS 1.2 will fix this. Looks like I jumped on the bandwagon 0.1 too early. It'll be good practice to rebuild everything.