Resizing Sd card partitions on windows.

[charlie]

I'm using a Windows system so Gparted won't work on it. Is there a Windows program that will allow me to resize the partitions?

[geezbeez]

I dont know of any that are free,
I'd just burn a gparted boot CD , boot your PC from the gparted CD, put in the SD card and resize the partitions on the SD card. Shut down and remove the CD when finished. This wont alter anything on your PC. Only thing is if you don't have the CD/DVD drive in your boot sequence but you should be able to find info on the net on how to do that if you dont already know. Its quite easy.

[texy]

Use the Debian wheezy image and you don't need to reimage before pluging into the pi.
Wheezy has a configuration script at first boot, one if the options is to resize the partitions.
T.

[BobAGI]

Does this mean that my Wheezy image, which was just 2 GB will now have expanded to use all available space on my 4GB SD-Card?
How can I check if this is the case? I don't have a monitor so I am running headless by connecting with SSH through PuTTY via the network.
What I mean is how can I find out how much space is available on the drive in Linux (command line)??

[texy]

Someone with more Linux experience can tell you about how much space is free. Note the first (boot) image will remain at ~70mb, its the other main partition that gets expanded. Once ur in the X GUI the file system tells you how much space is left.
Texy

[BobAGI]

I have no GUI access, just SSH via PuTTY....
So I need a commandline command to find out.

[itimpi]

You can use the df command to get details of mounted file systems.

[texy]

You can still get GUI access without having a monitor fitted. Search for tightvncserver.
T.

[charlie]

I'm using a Windows system so Gparted won't work on it. Is there a Windows program that will allow me to resize the partitions?

By the way, there is a way to resize the partitions on the pi itself, sorry but I cant find the link to the topic that showed it.

[andrewmk]

As itimpi said, the "df" command will show you filesystems mounted on your Pi and how much space is left on each. At the command line (logged in via SSH in your case) type:

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df -h

and you'll get something like this:

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /lib/init/rw
    udev                   10M  136K  9.9M   2% /dev
    tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
    rootfs                1.6G  1.6G     0 100% /
    /dev/mmcblk0p1         75M   28M   47M  38% /boot

BY the way, the -h flag means 'show the sizes in something that a human can understand'.

Andrew

[chessman2212]

hello, if using debian on your raspi you can read that : http://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Partitions

[Ocean20]

There is a free Windows partition manager called Easus partition manager. Try that.