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    Change to another SD with bigger size

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      Hakupapa
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      Hey there,

      I have a MM working since ca. 1,5 years with the standard modules and I am very happy about it. Now me wife would like to have family photos on the MM. I found some good modules like MMM-ImagesPhotos and in one hour I had some Photos on the mirror. So far so good.
      Then the problems started when I found out, that there isn´t enoug space for more then 10 Fotos. So I bought a bigger card and played the image to this new card. Unfortunately the partition size do not changes automaticly. I´ve tried differend ways to change the partition table but nothing worked (fdisk, gparted, acronis backup).
      So I read a lot and found out that the problem is noobs and there is no solution.

      The Idea now is to create a new partition with fat32 and create a folder in this new Partition. Then I would like to link from the modul (MMM-ImagesPhotos) to this new folder.

      There is a link in the MMM-ImagesPhotos.js

       getPhotos: function() {
                  var urlApHelper = "/Modules/MMM-ImagesPhotos/Photos";
                  var self = this;
                  var retry = true;
      

      I´ve changed to this

      getPhotos: function() {
      var urlApHelper = “/media/pi/B82B-6FB6/fotos”;
      var self = this;
      var retry = true;

      but it doesn´t work.

      Now the questions:

      1. Does here anybody knows a way to move to a bigger sd card without new installing everything?

      2. Does anybody knows how to say in MMM-ImagesPhotos.js that the photos are in another directory (on another partition)?

      I would be very happe for every idea.

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        A Former User
        last edited by

        This might be a stupid answer, but have you tried Expand filesystem in raspi-config ?

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          Hakupapa
          last edited by

          Hello sean,
          the question is not stupid. I tried but there is no choice in raspi config, because I use noobs. That is also the reason why does fdisk cant write new partitionetable after reboot.

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            A Former User @Hakupapa
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            @hakupapa
            https://dracoy.com/2016/06/26/expanding-partition-on-sd-card-for-raspberry-pi-with-noobs-pre-installed/
            Maybe this could be help, I wish.

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              sdetweil @Hakupapa
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              @hakupapa do you have another machine in the house where u can put your pictures, and then have the image modules show from there? I do this

              install the samba client, mount the remote volume and then use a symbolic link to it.

              I so liked how this worked out, I built a photo frame with MM, MMM-ImagePhotos (or ImageSlideShow with multiple linked folders), a 32 in tv and a pi…

              added my MMM-SleepWake (to use my webcam as the motion detector)

              Sam

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                sdetweil @Hakupapa
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                @hakupapa said in Change to another SD with bigger size:

                I´ve changed to this
                getPhotos: function() {
                var urlApHelper = “/media/pi/B82B-6FB6/fotos”;
                var self = this;
                var retry = true;

                right… the design of both modules depends on the data being IN the modules folder tree

                so, as u have it linked already… just (from the MM folder)

                mkdir modules/MMM-ImagesPhotos/my_fotos
                ln -s modules/MMM-ImagesPhotos/my_fotos  /media/pi/B82B-6FB6/fotos
                

                then the path modules/MMM-ImagesPhotos/my_fotos can show your photos…

                Sam

                How to add modules

                learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                  Hakupapa
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                    Hakupapa @Guest
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                    @sean
                    thx for the link. I tried something like this. But this is much harder and there were a lot of possible mistakes I could make. I think it is easyer to reinstall a new raspian an the magicmirror. I had never thougt, that there is no easy way to move to a bigger sd card, but it seems to be this way.

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                      Hakupapa @Hakupapa
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