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Resize rootfs on Pi
Check your partitions. You should have 3(1, 2 and 5)
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
Time to resize partitions to occupy the complete SD card.
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
Now delete extended, logical. Create extended, logical.
sync
reboot
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p5
Check whether changes have taken place
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 15G 795M 14G 6% /
devtmpfs 83M 0 83M 0% /dev
tmpfs 231M 0 231M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 231M 244K 231M 1% /run
tmpfs 231M 0 231M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 231M 0 231M 0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 90M 24M 67M 27% /boot
For a 16 Gb SD card, you'll see something like this.
Update
pacman -Syu
Now we have a basic Arch Linux running on Pi.
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