How Do I Upgrade From 32GB To 64GB SD Card?

[hoser 0]

Hi

I am running Ubuntu (see below) and want to upgrade my micro SD card from a 32GB to a 64GB 

How can I clone my 32GB card over to the 64GB card? I want to upgrade to the newer OS after the clone.

Thanks in advance.

ELAR-Systems:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:    Host: ELAR-Systems Kernel: 4.4.103-ELAR-Systems armv7l bits: 32 gcc: 4.9.4
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.31) info: xfce4-panel dm: lightdm
           Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Machine:   No /sys/class/dmi; using dmidecode: no smbios data. Old system?
CPU:       Quad core ARMv7 rev 1 (v7l) (-MCP-)  bmips: 576 arch: ARM
           clock speeds: min/max: 126/1800 MHz 1: 1800 MHz 2: 1800 MHz 3: 1800 MHz 4: 1800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Failed to Detect Video Card!
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
 

[Ming-Ta Yu 0]

Generally, you can use tool such as balenaEtcher to clone the SD card from a 32 GB one to a 64 GB one. Then, you need to resize the rootfs partition to fill the rest of the 32G space. 

[hoser 0]

I went to their website and looked at their forums it seems balenaEtcher is a nightmare of problems, I rather not risk data loss using a product hat appears to have a high failure rate. You know of any other methods ?

https://forums.balena.io/c/etcher/32

 

Thanks.

[tooz 52]

hello @hoser, 

win32 disk imager is the other alternative 

[Ming-Ta Yu 0]

You can also use Linux dd command to do this.

[bARTi4 0]

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