I know OpenHABian has an option to move the root from SD card to USB drive. I tried taking the OpenHABian image and writing it directly to a USB hard drive. The RPi3 has a OTP peripheral that can be used to set it to enable USB boot when the SD card is empty. This works great for Raspbian images.…

[image] automationf: The current method of “move to USB drive” still requires an SD card. Correct: [image] openHABian hassle-free openHAB Setup Server Yes. The openHABian “move” function needs an sd card, if you want to boot without an sd card at all yo…

Excuse the thread revival but I just moved root from a 16GB sdcard to a 32GB USB stick and it appears to have copied a 16GB image leaving 16GB unused. Were you able to find a way around this to make full use of the 1TB drive?

I think you would need to expand the filesystem. Try https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md or RPi Resize Flash Partitions - eLinux.org

Thanks. The first option will not work because the utility expects an sdcard not a usb card. Will investigate the second option.

Run OpenHABian from USB hard drive on RPi

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sihui (SiHui) August 18, 2017, 6:26pm 2

Correct: