got a problem, that a burned image of ubuntu on a micro-sd card for an arm-Board doesn't fit the whole space on the card and doesn't leave enough space for dist-upgrade. Repartitioning on-the-fly isn't possible as well, so I am a bit confused. How can I enlarge the partition created by burning the image of ubuntu on a micro-sd card?
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Boot from another drive. For example, you can use the computer, where you burned the image to the card. Use gparted to edit the partition table.
If you run Ubuntu live, gparted is available directly from dash (or a the menu in other flavours of Ubuntu). In an installed system, you install gparted with
sudo apt-get install gparted
The details how to move and/or grow partitions are described (for a similar case) at the following link,
Comment: If you move the head end (left edge in the graphics of gparted), of the partition with the /boot directory (often the root partition /), the bootloader will not find it, and you have to repair it. This is not difficult, but it is more convenient to keep the position of that head end.
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