Following the suggestion of @rikoshak, here is small tutorial how to move an existing openhabian installation from a SD-card to an usb-SSD on a RaspI 1 or 2. Because openhabian is based on raspbian, this tutorial is also supposed to work with raspbian. First of all, why should one move the root-sy…

By openhabian setup you mean this will automatically move everything to the ssd?.. if so could you do that for the pi3 as well?!

Have done some scripting but I need to test it, not sure if I have time for it this weekend. If the bash script works fine, I’ll try to integrate it into openhabian-setup.sh. Maybe I’ll need some guidance …

[image] peter_juenger: sudo lsblk does show the following at my RPi2: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 29.8G 0 disk mmcblk0 179:0 0 30G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 128M 0 part /boot └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 29.9G 0 part / When I call the f…

Seems not to be a noob tutorial, because it is assumed to do some things while being in the fdisk tool. For noobs like me: Here’s what I did for creating a partition: Command (m for help): n Partition type p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended (container for logical partiti…

[image] Boby: Seems not to be a noob tutorial, because it is assumed to do some things while being in the fdisk tool Yes, you’re right, I didn’t describe the creation of the partion in detail, sorry for that. The problem is that the disk can have already partions from its former life, so tha…

Merged! Thank you very much :wink:

Hi all, Sorry to revive an old thread, but I’m trying to set up the file system on my SSD but I get the following message: [image] Can anyone help me with this? Does it mean my installation is on my SSD? This is a fresh install of OpenHABian. sudo df: [image] Many thanks in advance

Hi, sorry to hear that. What does cat /boot/cmdline.txt say?

Hi Peter, Thanks for your response. The command shows the following: [image] I don’t understand a word but hope it helps :slight_smile:

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Raspi 2: Move system root to usb-SSD

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peter_juenger (Peter Juenger) October 24, 2016, 9:30am 8

@ThomDietrich: I’ve integrated the process into openhabian-setup.sh now, see the PR

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