Resize android 7.1 image paritions on a micro SD¶
Linux¶
Materials¶
- Host computer running Linux
- Built-in SD/micro-SD card reader, or adapter
- Micro-SD card pre loaded with aml-s905x-cc-android-7-1-preview-1-img
Procedure¶
- Open GParted GUI. You should see a parent partition containing 4 child partitions; this is what you need to resize first
- Resize the parent partition as desired. Note that you need to add the same amount of space to this partition that you want to make available to Android
- Keeping the first child partition in place, move all three of its’ siblings to the end of the parent partition
- Resize the first child partition (this should be labelled DATA) to the desired size