Clone the SD card?

A Former User

hi, or use SD copy program in your rpi desktop

drewski3420

If you can get on a linux machine, this is quick and easy with dd.

First, plug in your current sdcard and find the path using

sudo fdisk -l

It’ll be a path starting with /dev/, usually /dev/sdX or /dev/mmcblk#. Get the whole drive, not the partition (for a device at /dev/sda, the partitions will be /dev/sda1, sda2, etc).

Next, copy the current image to a file, using the path you just found:

sudo dd=$YOUR_NEW_PATH of=$FileName.img bs=1M

Once it’s finished (it’ll take a while), remove your card and insert the new one, and reverse the process. Find the path to the new card (it may have changed from the original) and use the image file you just created as the input:

sudo dd if=$FileName.img of=$YOUR_PATH bs=1M

And you’re done.

sdetweil

@C-son see https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/4203/copy-current-sd-image-to-larger-sd-card

sdetweil

@drewski3420 but that leaves the new space unused

blaukon

@sdetweil

sudo raspi-config
Advanced Options
Expand Filesystem
reboot
that might help :-)

sdetweil

@blaukon there is a command to do it too… sinced he is right there doing dd

drewski3420

@sdetweil Can you share the command?

sdetweil

@drewski3420 read the content on the link above