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I am using RaspberryPi OS Lite on my model 3B on a 8Gb SD card, but ran out of space. I tried copying the old SD card using

  • dd on the whole SD Card
  • dd on both partitions separately
  • balenaEtcher (clone drive)
  • various other tools for cloning drives

but no matter what I did, when I tried to boot I got a kernel panic because /sbin/init exists but couldn't be executed. I also tried changing fstab and cmdline.txt replacing the PARTUUID for the root partition with /dev/mmcblk0p2. My old SD still booted but it had no effect on my new SD Card. I could not find any guide that doesn't use these steps.

user18795606
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  • Your question has been [asked](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/120124/how-to-copy-sd-card-whithout-copying-the-unallocated-space), and [answered](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/120154/83790) – Seamus Sep 04 '22 at 20:39
  • It might be a solution that works, but in the end I used a different tool that is easier to use and does exactly what I need. (see answer) – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 21:18
  • This shell script solved my problem: https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 21:12
  • In that case you should add an answer to the previous existing question, but as per your (deleted) answer here, that should contain meaningful content beyond a pasted link. – goldilocks Sep 04 '22 at 21:41
  • I have a different problem than the author of the previous question. Copying to a larger SD card is different than copying to a smaller SD card and therefore deserves its own thread imo – user18795606 Sep 04 '22 at 22:11
  • The easiest solution is to use the SD Card Copier included in Raspberry Pi OS. – Milliways Sep 04 '22 at 23:18

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