How to resizing the rootFS on R2S using gparted (the easy way)

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello all.
I would like to show you how you can use the gparted utility to modify the rootfs partition. This method is not in the OpenWRT documentation, but it is much clearer and simpler! Below you will see screenshots of the actions.

$ lsblk

openwrt_gparted

$ su

# gparted  /dev/sdc

openwrt_gparted_1
openwrt_gparted_11023×495 29.5 KB

Right-click on this bar and select "Resize"

openwrt_gparted_2
openwrt_gparted_21018×494 32.4 KB

openwrt_gparted_3
openwrt_gparted_31016×495 41.7 KB

Swipe right and click "Resize/Move"

openwrt_gparted_5
openwrt_gparted_51019×496 42.4 KB

Click "Ok"

openwrt_gparted_6
openwrt_gparted_61012×491 48.4 KB

Click on the green check mark to apply the selected actions

openwrt_gparted_7
openwrt_gparted_71019×497 30.7 KB

Click "Apply"

openwrt_gparted_8
openwrt_gparted_81012×495 40.8 KB

you can check how the change went, go through SSH or look in the LuCI web interface

openwrt_gparted_9
openwrt_gparted_9802×142 27.3 KB

openwrt_gparted_10
openwrt_gparted_101220×829 56.5 KB

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And how are you going to upgrade it afterwards?

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Why should I upgrade?

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Erm, to get the security fixes and new features?

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And what prevents you from doing this?

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I thought that sysupgrade overwrites the rootfs. Is that not the case?

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Maybe you're right, I'll check it one of these days...

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My suggestion would to create another partition that you can use for whatever bigger data, and leave rootfs just for the OS and extra packages.

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Good idea, thanks, but I created a post to show between this method https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root in which there will be the same result with two sections, only use the script, which is not always convenient for those who are just starting their journey.

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Just for other's reference:

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