I just wanted to update with my experience because I found this thread when looking to migrate to a bigger card. Here are the steps I followed on version 2022.7.5:
I wasn’t sure it would work but the partition magically resized to take up the whole card. Now I have a bunch of free space showing in HA.
I can confirm the method of efeickert works!
I am on 2022.9.5, moved from 32gb to 265gb SD card without any problems or warnings.
This should be considered as an official method of replacing an SD card.
Great thread here with good working approaches. I just wanted to add another potentially simpler (and faster) option for those who need to do this.
If you have BalenaEtcher and a pair of microSD card slots like I do, you can simply insert the old and new microSD cards into your computer (I’m on a Mac) and use BalenaEtcher’s “Clone Disk” function to copy from the old to the new. You get a nice progress output, and I’m impressed with the throughput I’m seeing. It’s looking like it’ll take ~30m to copy from a 64GB card to a new 128GB card.
While I was comfortable with the dd approach like was posted above, the throughput is better this way and I don’t have to temporarily hold a large image file on my computer’s disk.
Hi Guy´s, another success, had a PI3 with low memory, so low that i couldent even make a backup as the system said need for supervisor with no other reference
Took Balena Etcher and just copied the image from the 8GB SD to a 32 GB one and it worked like a charm
BR
Andy
banana etcher did not work for me for some reason
For those on a Mac, Here is what I did to move from a 32GB sd card to a 256 GB Samsung SSD.
Boot it up on RasPI with a USB to SATA adapter that has external power and the ASM235CM Chip.
HA booted up, and expanded the data drive to the full 256~ gb…
I just rebuild my HA using the HomeAssistant image in the RasPI Imager so i am running hassio.
Hope this helps someone else.
Thanks, this also worked for me. Before, I tried the win32diskimager, full image of 64GB sd card, restore with win32DI to 128GB card, HA boot OK but a lot of devices where double , very strange ! Ofcourse nothing worked.
Then with restore via BalenaEtcher to the 128GB sd card everything was OK.
Also can confirm this worked for me on a Pi4 with a 16GB SD card. I’m using Windows 11.
I went into my terminal, and df -h showed the new free space automagically!
Can confirm
- Shut down the Pi4 host
- Made a backup image of the 16GB card using Win32DiskImager
- Wrote that image to a 64GB card using BalenaEtcher
- Booted up the Pi with the 64GB card and waited about 5 minutes
as a way to go as well. Just moved from a 32gb card to 128gb from a system that didn’t even boot anymore due to lacking disk space. Thanks @efeickert !
Yes this is very simple and works fine.
And as a ‘pile on’, using Linux, simply pop the “small memory card” into the reader of a desktop/laptop, create a disk image (easy with “disks” application), then resorte that image to a larger card! I literally just did if from a 16G to a 128G card… about 20 minutes for the copy work, adn took HA about 5-7 minutes to boot up while resizing in the background. All good.
Can also confirm this worked for me thank you @efeickert
Am on windows 11, win32diskimager did not start properly but it was due to Google drive.
Closed that down and all worked a charm (pi3 16gb ->32gb)
Thank you. Test install on Raspberry Pi 3B+ from 16GB SD to SanDisk Max Endurance 64GB Card.
7 Min for Win32DiskImager to read 16GB SD-HC Card.
Same for balenaEtcher to write to 64GB SD Card with another 7 Min to validate.
Windows recognized the SD as about 32GB
I have a small display on the HA test install and it started scrolling right away, but it took a few minutes for HA fully start.
HA reported 21.8% used - 42.9 free, which worked out of 54.9GB.
Updated to HA 2024.7.0 without issue in about 12 minutes.
