October 24, 2021

Enlarged Boot Drive

My Raspberry Pi that runs some crucial services was running out of space. I purchased a bigger SD card (64 GBs might be overkill, but it was cheap and is quite an upgrade fro the 16 GB card I was using before) and did the update today. It takes much longer than it should, but my Pi now has much more space for stuff and things.

I thought there would be a quick-to-find-and-follow tutorial. However, I found several that didn’t work, before running into Lee’s “How to Backup & Clone a Raspberry Pi SD Card on macOS the Easy Way.” Yes, it was easy, but it literally took several hours. I even took a run while it was writing the system to the new card, and it still wasn’t finished after an hour.

I’ve been wanting to do more homelab stuff lately, but I don’t really have a project. Still I have a couple of SSDs sitting around, so I might add one to a Pi to upgrade its speed and reliability. Maybe a UPS, or a new fan. New case? Oh, how about a Pi router? That might be fun. Maybe all of these? If I had but world enough and time.

Speaking of upgrades: macOS Monterey is out tomorrow. Sweet.