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Cootey · 06-20-2021, 06:15 AM

Unfortunately, I wandered off and fixed it myself without seeing rmnelson & davidfor's helpful suggestions. Since I will likely be helping my friend upgrade his Clara, I'll definitely be looking into Magic Memory Upgrade Mod.

What I ended up doing was the following:

1. I cloned the original SD card to a disk image using dd.
2. I cloned the disk image back to the new SD card.
3. This turned my 128GB SD card into a 8GB card, matching the original card's size.
4. I discovered that the advice to use Gparted was incomplete. Fat32 cannot be resized. That meant I had to reformat the third partition to be Linux EXT4 so that it could be resized. I ended up installing Gnome Disk Utility, now called Disks, which could format, manage, AND repartition. Reformated to EXT4, resized the partition, reformatted back to Fat32, and voilà! I now had two Linux system partitions and a giant 128ish GB partition for ebooks. Except that this process destroyed all the data on the large partition.
5. Back on my Mac, I used rsync to restore the data to the now expanded partition.
6. Installed the new SD card into my Clara. Experienced the boot loop of death for a bit, got things running, but then experienced frequent crashes. Then I installed the dev tools on the Clara and Factory reset the Clara back to the Stone Age.
7. Rebooted. Reinstalled. Reconfigured. Restored side loaded books.
8. Did a happy dance.
9. Learned there was this thing called Magic Memory Upgrade Mod that would have saved me a headache. And time. I cried internally.

Please do not follow my directions. LOL

At least I'm up and running. I definitely will check out Magic Memory for any other updates I do. My friend doesn't have my patience or delight with geeky detours.

06-20-2021, 06:15 AM	#6
Cootey Absentminded Reader Posts: 1,339 Karma: 7440829 Join Date: Apr 2017 Device: Kobo Mini, Libra Colour & Elipsa; Kindle Paperwhite 3 & 4; iOS apps	Unfortunately, I wandered off and fixed it myself without seeing rmnelson & davidfor's helpful suggestions. Since I will likely be helping my friend upgrade his Clara, I'll definitely be looking into Magic Memory Upgrade Mod. What I ended up doing was the following: 1. I cloned the original SD card to a disk image using dd. 2. I cloned the disk image back to the new SD card. 3. This turned my 128GB SD card into a 8GB card, matching the original card's size. 4. I discovered that the advice to use Gparted was incomplete. Fat32 cannot be resized. That meant I had to reformat the third partition to be Linux EXT4 so that it could be resized. I ended up installing Gnome Disk Utility, now called Disks, which could format, manage, AND repartition. Reformated to EXT4, resized the partition, reformatted back to Fat32, and voilà! I now had two Linux system partitions and a giant 128ish GB partition for ebooks. Except that this process destroyed all the data on the large partition. 5. Back on my Mac, I used rsync to restore the data to the now expanded partition. 6. Installed the new SD card into my Clara. Experienced the boot loop of death for a bit, got things running, but then experienced frequent crashes. Then I installed the dev tools on the Clara and Factory reset the Clara back to the Stone Age. 7. Rebooted. Reinstalled. Reconfigured. Restored side loaded books. 8. Did a happy dance. 9. Learned there was this thing called Magic Memory Upgrade Mod that would have saved me a headache. And time. I cried internally. Please do not follow my directions. LOL At least I'm up and running. I definitely will check out Magic Memory for any other updates I do. My friend doesn't have my patience or delight with geeky detours. Last edited by Cootey; 06-20-2021 at 06:17 AM.